Summer is Going and I am Sad.

Well, about a few things, anyhow. I have been watching the light change its character in the last few weeks, going from the green and blue bright clarity of summertime to the golden haziness of fall. Even though it has still been relatively warm here, I can feel the colder note of the breeze on my skin after the sun sets.

Also, Peanut has begun announcing the moon when she sees it, which makes time feel as though it is passing like nothing else. She told us on our Saturday evening ramble, as she saw the moon through the leaves of a magnolia tree- "Moooong" or something similar. I asked, "Do you see the star next to the moon?"

She replied, with the wonder only a 1 year old can summon, "Staaaaaa."

In any case, I am dying to bake again. I hate baking in the summer and by the time falls creeps into view, I am craving all manner of baked goods- bread, cookies, scones.... Scones have been calling to me today, so after I made dinner, I started a batch of scones. I started making these, but then I realized we didn't go to the farmer's market this past weekend, so my eggs are rather elderly and probably not at their best. So I googled a scone recipe that didn't call for eggs, and made this one.



The picture is from my mobile phone, so excuse the extremely poor quality. They turned out ok, but I think that I overworked the dough, and since I didn't have cream on hand (who does?), I used the full fat milk that Peanut drinks. They are a bit more chewy than I normally like, but I think if I were to make them again, instead of using the pastry blender, I would use my food processor instead, to make sure the butter stays cold. I would also freeze the milk/cream and butter for a few minutes before starting, to make sure everything was really cold. That always makes my pie crust really flaky, so I bet it would work on these, too. (Thanks, Martha Stewart for the best pate brisee recipe ever).

I also mentioned the other day that I am knitting now. Well, in my excitement over this, I signed up to join Ravelry.com- and my invite just came today! It's such a cool site! I wish there was one out there like this for sewing- I love the tool tracker thingy and the project queue is amazing. I know it is going to suck up too much of my time, but I was very stoked to see the invite in my mailbox today!

I am working on a scarf, as I mentioned, from the Better Homes and Gardens 123 Knit book. The pattern is called the Wavy Rib Warmer, and it looks like this so far:





I am making it from an off white acrylic yarn, so it is super high quality (um, or not), but I figured that this is totally a learning process and I may as well start with relatively cheap yarn so I don't waste money on my screw-ups.

And while I was looking at my photos, I saw this one, of our Sego Palm in the front yard- it had this weird ball of leaves in the center and I took this picture before it began to unfurl...



Have a good week.