Pearl Beach in Winter
I’m currently in Pearl Beach, Michigan, with Hawkeye and Dub, visiting Grandma and Grandpa. The view out my window is of a beautiful wild river with a marshland and forest on the other side. The river is always changing - sometimes iced over, sometimes running free.
The birding has been fantastic - we saw a merlin right ouside our windows! That is a new bird for me. It looked much bigger than I would have imagined. We’ve seen lots of ducks too - canvasbacks, common goldeneyes, common mergansers, mallards, I think a bufflehead or two. Also mute swans. All this from the comfort of our living room!
Of course I’m knitting a lot too. Working on a wonderful four-color stash sweater, though it looks like I’ll have to buy a skein or two to finish it. Also a very delicate scarf in pink lace-weight yarn - the Trellis-Bordered Openwork Diamonds pattern.
We went to Mary Maxim’s retail store in Port Huron and I got more of the beige Invicta for the strange-gauge socks. For now, I’m having fun working on the sweater and scarf - the socks can wait a bit longer.
The kids are great - field trips with Hawkeye for train watching and sledding, learning to build fires in the fireplace, Dub providing play-by-play commentary for the Superbowl. We’re all getting lots of quality time with Grandma and Grandpa. Life is good.
