Palo Alto ... Livermore?

During my Thanksgiving weekend, I stayed a little closer to home than Cookie did. That doesn't mean that I didn't do and see some fun things, though!

As I mentioned before, my parents were here for Thanksgiving. On Saturday, we went out to the Livermore valley to do a little wine tasting. We found some nice places, and the last place we stopped had a beautiful view, and some sheep! The picture below doesn't really capture it, but the lamb was very cute and springy, jumping all over the place.

On Monday, we took a quick trip to Gamble Gardens in Palo Alto and saw some neat plants. I really liked the Giant Fennel, and so did the second camo sock:

A giant succulent:

I thought this mulberry was really neat to see. All of the colors would make a nice yarn, I thought:

On Monday afternoon, we went to see "The Queen" at the local theater, and I got some knitting done. All that was left on the second camo sock after that was the toe and the afterthought heel. Now those are done. Done!

I should go see "Happy Feet" in these socks, because that's how my feet are feeling ...

Also, because we stayed closer to home, I even had time to work on spinning. So for Yarn Pr0n Friday, I give you a bit of the Alpaca/Corriedale blend I got from the Sanguine Gryphon's shop. I navajo plyed this, so it's a 3-ply, and is about worsted weight:

This is just a small bit on the niddy-noddy because I was navajo plying and I wasn't sure that I was liking the results, so I thought I was going to have to regroup. So I put the whole thing aside for a couple of days and came back and put it on the niddy-noddy. Lo and behold, I liked it! I plyed up the rest of that bobbin but still need to skein it and wash them. There's another 4 ounces waiting to be plyed, too!