One fine day, I was driving down the road near my home admiring how butterflies were flying up my windshield and over my Nissan Leaf without splatting on the glass. I thought how lovely having an aerodynamic car was. Through my haze of bliss, I opened my garage, pulled in, and got out to plug in my car. There on the front bumper near the little charging door was a flattened butterfly. Well, crap! There goes my joy! oh well. I guess not all butterflies get to live happily ever after. So, I very carefully pulled it off by the very edge of its wings and went outside to drop it on the ground so it could maybe feed a bird or something…circle of life and all that.

As I released it, would you believe that it opened its wings and FLEW OFF! Now, I’m not talking about flew a few feet and then collapsed and died. It flew at least 50 feet and then landed in a field of wildflowers. At this point, all the facts about butterflies not being able to fly if you touch their wings flashed through my head. I squashed that logic right down and focused on how little I had touched it and I chose to believe that the butterfly lived in a land of unicorns and rainbows…you know, for like a day, cause butterflies don’t live that long.

But still, it was pretty freaking cool to have a butterfly that had been dead fly off into the flowers! WINNING!

Ps. In case you were wondering, it was moving much too fast to be a zombie butterfly. It was well and truly alive….I think. Happy Friday the Thirteenth!

Ps. I’ve logged over 12,000 miles on my Leaf!

I just ran across these super awesome knitted social media icons (look right >>> ).

The designer has asked that folks that use ’em share the link, so please go check them out if you like them!

Went over to the neighbor’s place to borrow their gorgeous wild daisy field for my photo shoot on Easter evening. Thanks, Peg!


These are my Set Fire to the Rain socks that have finally become a pair. The pattern is Chamfer by Hunter Hammersen. This was not my favorite pattern to knit since I couldn’t seem to memorize it, however, I’ll probably knit them again at some point since I think they look wicked cool on! Other people seem to have memorized the pattern just fine, so I’m sure it’s just me….and I’m certainly not going to let it stop me from making another pair cause the more I look at these, the more I love them…..(sound of me digging through stash to see what color I want to do next).

I like the feel of Handmaiden Fine Yarn Casbah Sock yarn and the color, Saltspray. If you have a chance, I recommend trying Casbah out.

The one below might be my favorite picture since I just decided to lay back for a bit and relax and enjoy the daisies. Taking pictures of your own feet is a workout, people.

I hope everyone had a beautiful Easter!