Parker Cardigan and Winter Wonderland

Here is the beginnings of the Parker Cardigan that I wrote about a few days ago.  This is the beginning of the back and it is coming along really nicely! I'm using the Vanna's Choice acrylic yarn in a lovely shade of deep purple.

I have the day off work today and I've been organizing my craft room all day - photos to come when it is all set up!  Otherwise, I've just been knitting and un-packing my Japanese Re-Ment miniatures collection, too.  Just quiet stay-at-home stuff for me today....because it is a winter wonderland outside!  C'mon, Mother Nature, I thought it was Spring, so why do you have to bring us more snow?  Poor Paul has to drive home from work in a huge blizzard today.

As I've posted about before, we set up a bird feeder and have been putting seed out for the birds, squirrels, rabbits, and whoever else comes into our backyard that wants some seed.  A pair of Mourning Doves has been eating the seed from a pile on the ground and they were looking towards the back door this morning wondering where the food was, as the remaining seeds were buried under the fresh snow.  I went outside in the back yard and cleared some snow off the deck, and poured out some seeds into a pile.

I went back downstairs a couple of hours later and there was a huge bird party going on out there!  Tons and tons of birds all in the feeder, on the ground, and sitting up on the trees and on smaller plants as well!  There had to have been at least 40 birds in our little backyard.  I took a bunch of photos with the camera, so you can take a look!  I'm happy that the birds can enjoy some food in these blizzard-like conditions!

Difficult to see the birds - a view from the upstairs bedroom window looking down into the backyard.

Still snowing outside....it does look rather pretty, but I'm just about ready for spring!  Besides, all the snow that we had before had completely melted, so now we have to wait for all of this new snow to melt!