Monday, December 15, 2008
HO.HO.HO Without All that Snow
Colors of the tropics—the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, Australia
It is holiday time here Down Under, truly. Heaps of cheer can be found in the shops, the clubs, the wayfares, but I'm having a bit of trouble acclimatizing myself to this tropical shade of Christmas. No snow, only white sand and blue sea; no reindeer only marsupials with big ears and a bouncing gate; no sleighs only boats and 'utes'—what's up? Besides which, all Christmas lights and tinsel ropes get lost in the natural glory of parakeets and cockatoos. Who can compete with that?
It's a marshmallow world…
I brought bags and bags of yarn in anticipation of a reef-inspired evocative knitting booklet—all the colors of the sea with the aquas, the sea greens, the bronzy seaweeds—but somehow I missed the fish, the multicolored electric phasmagoria of underwater inhabitants that light up that blue in a thousand faceted hues. How could I do that when I had been so carefully collecting those silken oranges, corals and purples? Well, I remind myself, I couldn't actually lug all that yarn thousands of miles, could I?
But the bigger problem may be that I've been so involved with family and festive yuletide activities that I've had no time to knit. No knitting for a month, this wouldn't be healthy except that I'm having a grand time with my extended family. At home, the cold weather keeps you inbound, compressing activities to armchairs watching DVDs instead of frolicking in the sea, talking to fish and chasing rainbow lorikeets and playing with your neices and nephews.
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire…
Could a tree get any more colorful?
Posted by Jane on
12/15 at 06:45 PM
I have missed your posts. I could certainly use a lorikeet inspired free range design. Magenta, citric limeaide green, french blue, red. I can see it now....
By janice on 2008 12 18