1. Here's a couple of pictures of the first Cape Cod sock. The first picture is true-color, the second one, I've juiced the contrast and brightness a little in hopes of showing the stitch pattern better.

First: The Giant Sock! (well, it looks that way):



Second: One last picture as my camera was "running on fumes" (Even if I don't use up all the battery charge, if I'm not using the camera it slowly loses its charge):



2. Someone on the knitlist was talking about "Why blogs?" and saying she didn't get it. Someone else made the comment that "The best blogs are picture-heavy." I don't necessarily agree - some of my favorite blogs and the ones I read the most have relatively few pictures and lots of writing. What I'm looking for, when I read a blog, is someone with interesting insights, or who talks about what they're learning from the process, or a funny/profound way of looking at things, or who has an interesting life or career that they talk a little bit about. Frankly, for me, the boringest (is that a word?) blogs are the ones that are just page after page of "Look! I made this!" and "Look! Here's another thing I made!" without any discussion of pattern/yarn choice, or problems encountered, or things they learned on the way.

I don't know. I'm always kind of puzzled when someone - either a private citizen or someone in the media - disses blogs as boring or pointless. You feel that way? Fine. Then don't read 'em. There are plenty things I find boring and pointless but I don't spend scads of time complaining about them.

3. On a more positive note: I have a sprinkler set up to water my tomato garden. Every other morning, it turns on (I have a timer- and what a great invention those are) and runs for about 35 minutes. Well, today, it was running as I walked out to my car and I got to see three chickadees flying back and forth through the spray, sitting on the lower branches of a tree near the sprinkler so they got showered, and fluffing and preening and generally looking like they were enjoying themselves. (I know, you're not supposed to anthropomorphize with wildlife, but by golly, they LOOKED like they were enjoying themselves). It's been quite dry here and the past few days have been warm (but not humid) but it looks like today and tomorrow are just going to be stupid-hot. So maybe the birds were trying to get cooled down early on.