Here are some wonderful flowers and berries from Marja in Rusko, Finland. Marja connected me to a website with a simple but important idea. It's the litter movement, well, actually, the anti-litter movement. Elisa's idea, we all pick up a piece of trash a day when we see it in our surroundings. Check out her website, sign her guest book and pick up some litter! Kiltos Marja for the terrific flowers to share. Kiltos Elisa for the terrific idea!
An amazing item appeared on the pole where the shelf used to be. It's an assemblage on cardboard. Pretty wonderful. Also, some flowers and gift ribbon adorn the pole. I'm so intrigued by the continuation of community art making/shrine keeping. Neat!! I wanted to share with you some of the flowers from my neighbor's yard. She does wonderful rose bushes and these two were such sweet looking blooms, kind of old fashioned looking. Her hydrangea bush is quite large and bull of blossoms. It's in full sun, while mine are in the shade and haven't bloomed yet.
Today, Noah created a skull-a-day image using people. We were invited to join him on Belle Isle for the photo shoot at 9 this morning. The pedestrian bridge is under the James River vehicle bridge and is quite dramatic. We got wonderful views of the river as we crossed over. Under the bridge, on the south side, was our staging site. You can see the image created on the skull-a-day web site. Here is a photo of the legs of the people in front of me and one of Noah on the landing with his camera, getting us into position.
Walking back across the James River gave us this wonderful view of the curving vehicle bridge overhead. I found this beautiful but frightening, for reasons I can't talk about in this post. This one canoe with fishing guys looked so peaceful. There's part of an older bridge, just a rusty partial structure remains and the stone supports in the water. I, also, liked the heavy duty cable connections. 
Here are more images of Dianne Nordt's wonderful Merino wool. I found out that she has only 3 Merino sheep, a woman comes to sheer them in the spring, then the wool gets sent off to a mill to be spun. This current collection is from three year's worth of shearing. Erika is "modeling" some yarn that Dianne dyed with black walnut leaves. I love that she gets two brown shades from the leaves. I've one pair of fingerless gloves from the single-ply yarn and love the way they look and feel. Dianne wants me to make a pair for her and two other people that I saw at the market want pairs. Woo hoo, I've got to get busy knitting!
I work for Victory Farms of Hanover of Thursday mornings at the Farmers' Market, as some of you know. I just love it. It's so nice to talk with people about produce, exchange recipes, buy things from other vendors, like today fresh local strawberries that were so yummy.
are my favorites. I like to eat them raw, or on bread with butter. Lots of people like my radish spread...here's a simple recipe. Put a package of cream cheese, half that amount of butter, and some of the radishes in a food processor and whirl away. You can also add some green olives with pimiento, or even some carrots. You don't need to add any seasonings. If you're vegan just substitute the non-dairy products for the dairy version, of course. It's really a good summery spread for crackers.
