Must be that Olympic spirit

I don't know how I'm doing it, but I've been zipping along through the green scarf that is meant to be a gift to my mom (who I'll be seeing on Sunday). At this rate I will probably have knitted too much by the time I get home. Who has put the wind in my fingertips? I'm loving it!...so much wind is there that I whipped out a hat as well this week!

Red XandO scarf finished!!!

Just need to weave in some of the ends, block it, photograph it and send it to Sweden now!

Fun around Town

So I had a friend visiting from Australia and I took a few days of vacation to be a tourist with him. I hadn't realized how much I missed my camera until I got ahold of his (also a Cannon, so I didn't have too hard of a time adjusting).

I took some great shots of Chicago that I thought I'd share here...

We had an inside joke about dolphins going on, and so when we saw some stuffed dolphins at the Field Museum we, of course, HAD to have pictures with them: