This morning it looked like this:

The edge of one petal is starting to unfurl. And just look at that color!

My Cecil Bruner roses have been putting on quite the show this year, too. I picked a few, put them in the tiny vase that Dad bought for me when I was a child, a special little vase for the special little flowers that I have always liked to bring inside to enjoy.

And just so there’s a little something other than a few photos of flowers, here are Dave and I the day that we spent in San Francisco with my aunt and uncle in early March. It was blustery at the docks that day. We had periods of sun, some rain, some wind. It was glorious.

I’ve been knitting furiously on the heptagonal shawl. I’m expecting yarn to arrive any day now for a secret project. I want to get the heptagon settled before it arrives, and I have to switch project focus. I’ve been swatching again, trying to figure out the next step before I get to it, decide how far I need to knit, all that stuff. The one main thing I learned? When swatching for something that’s going to be knit in the round, the swatch also really needs to be knit in the round. If it isn’t the edges are all wonky, and you can’t tell what’s what. Waste of time! The latest swatch is being done in the round. Lesson learned.