This has not been the easiest summer. Just when I thought things might ease up a bit at work, I needed to rapidly get some data done to help a labmate get a paper ready for publication. And just as I was getting started with that, I found out my younger grandmother (only 96), Grandma Adeline, was in the hospital with pneumonia and kidney failure. She only survived a day in the hospital, where all they could do was make her comfortable. So, we hurried back to the Midwest for her funeral.\u00a0 She had planned her funeral, and a deacon of her church, who was a close friend, led the service with great love and sincerity. She was very smart, was a wonderful story teller, and had a great sense of humor, so she will be missed.<\/p>\n

Then it was back to California to all those experiments to do and all the housework and laundry to catch up on. When I am under stress, I have trouble focusing. And since I am normally able to focus bizarrely well, a lack of focus is all the more upsetting. I must have at least 6 books started. I have so many socks started, that I can’t knit any second socks until I finish another first. Even though I have a third of a sweater done, I’ve swatched for several other garments and large projects. I have two FOs to weave in ends and block. It’s all a little too much right now.<\/p>\n

I finally downloaded a whole raft of pictures from the small point-and-shoot camera I carry in my purse, and I’ve chosen some of my favorite images that cheer and calm:
\nA neighbor’s tree in bloom<\/em>
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\nKitty #34 looking disgruntled; she’s probably wondering where M, her true love, is.<\/em>
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\nKitty #34 wondering why M, her true love, won’t let her up into his lap (he’s allergic).<\/em>
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\nA neighborhood view during an evening walk (I love the light).<\/em>
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\nAnother view of our neighborhood.<\/em>
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\nRoses at the university arboretum.<\/em>
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\nM making cocktails.<\/em>
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