greenery

I didn’t take any pictures of the sewing I have been doing, but I will make up for that with a tutorial soon. (As soon as the Pay It Forward packages go out.) Instead I thought I would gush about how much I love green. Not just the color, but more specifically plants. Trees make me happy.  I sigh and smile and continually repeat the phrase “this is SO beautiful” whenever I visit a lush location.

This includes leaves and ferns and flowers. Some of my favorite places on this planet are redwood forests and cypress groves.

That may be why I take so many dang landscape shots. (Mr. Man is the portrait-taker.)  The happy little flower above is one of the few decent pictures from my brother-in-laws MBA graduation day.  (No matter how diligent you are about bringing your camera, it doesn’t help if you forget the memory card.)

So, while this blog has taken a decided detour from crafting, I enjoy being able to share my photos.  Any one else so enamored of shrubberies?  Or could you do without trees altogether and move to Nevada in a heartbeat?  I would go visit you.  Once.

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I was watching in amazement as crazy monkey cat decided that she needed to gnaw on my plastic garbage pail and I started to list all of the inedible objects that she will randomly chew on. There are a lot. And she is not teething. (Do cats teethe?) (Is “teethe” a word?)

So we have established the plastic garbage pail, and there is the standard house plant (but only the stems). She has also been known to nibble on the metal window frame, the corner of our computer desk, and…

her tail,

spools of thread,

wooden chairs,

her kitty sibling,

and toilet paper.

Is this normal?