Scenes by the river

The Henry Hudson Park was hopping today! I was finally able to get a shot of the bald eagle that flies out from its nesting site each week. Yeah, that's him...or her. Too far away to tell (not that I could tell the difference).

And a fisherman was at one end of the park but I couldn't tell if he caught anything.

But even if he didn't, a bad day of fishing beats a good day of working!

There were plenty of boats too but if I stopped to take a picture of every one that went by, I would never get any knitting done.

At least two flocks of Canada geese swam by too. They were very quiet going upstream but they made their presence known on the way down again.

Janna's and Annika's father came to sit by the water to read and watch the wildlife.

There was quite a group today too.

Cinzia surprised us by bringing along one of her children, Sophia. She'll be heading back to college soon so it was so nice to see her. I haven't seen her since she left for her freshman year!

Sophia hasn't knitted since then either so she was practicing her stitching.

Cinzia put the finishing border on her crocheted baby blanket, perfectly sized for a car seat.

The beige blanket that Barbara B. was working on for the last few weeks turned out to be the wrong color for the new baby girl that was born. So Plan B was to make this pretty one instead.

Debbie was making cables on the hat she started but they gave her some trouble so she had to start over. Her ribbing is so nice and even.

And Maureen joined us today! She's been on babysitting duty for her 8 month old granddaughter since the early spring so it was so nice to see her again. She's putting a sleeve on her Sunnyside sweater.

Janna started the mosaic portion of her Emiliana scarf. But when she realized she didn't have the correct stitch count, she had to tink back to fix it. That's ok, many times I've spent more time frogging that knitting but it all works out in the end.

And here is Annika's shawl all finished except for the crocheted edging which is coming along nicely.

My Racimo Cowl is getting longer but the ball of yarn doesn't seem to be getting smaller. That's what happens when you use a center pull ball of yarn. It seems to stay the same size for so much of the project and then BAM! You're almost finished and you're racing against the clock to finish knitting before you run out of yarn.

Why? Don't you knit faster to finish before you run out of yarn? LOL!

I hope you enjoyed the scenes by the river this week. It's always so peaceful there and these days I need all the peace I can find. Have a good week and keep those needles clicking!