old lady bee

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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

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old lady bee@oldladybee· 2d

All that remains are the sleeves. Easy, peasy right? RIGHT? 😳 #myfirstsweater #knitsky 🧶

Photo of a woman wearing a lilac sweater, a hand knit work in process. Sleeves are missing/yet to be knitted. Poster is panicking a little about knitting sleeves for the first time, wondering if it works without, LOL!
Pattern: Step-by-step sweater by Florence Miller
Yarn: Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran in Lilac (color 30046)

old lady bee@oldladybee· 3d

An old @gnome-and-tonic.bsky.social post explained what look like petals on a hydrangea, are leaves, and the tiny round bits are the flowers. Now the color change in my plants makes sense. Like trees, as they get closer to the end of their lifespan, they change color; these from white to dark pink.

old lady bee@oldladybee· 11d

Omg! Farmer's Market SCORE! Locally grown donut peaches (IYKYK), and handspun, undyed yarn from local sheep. I feel like I found a pirate's treasure, LOL!

A pile of "donut peaches with piles of yarn behind them.

old lady bee@oldladybee· 11d

It's still a work in process. But I'm thrilled with how it's going so far!

old lady bee@oldladybee· 11d

Eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus) in the garden today. These Echinacea "Magnus" purpurea are fantastic for attracting butterflies and birds. I haven't been quick enough to snap the birds.

A butterfly with yellow wings outlined in black with black vertical stripes like a tiger. It also has a little oblong tail at the bottom tip of each wing. Its body is long, fat and yellow with two thin black stripes that run its full length. It is perched on the orange, spikey cone of a large pink Echinacea flower.

old lady bee@oldladybee· 13d

Going at a snail's pace, but just split the body and sleeves, and my first sweater is finally looking like...a sweater, LOL! #knitting #knitsky 🧶

Photo of a lilac raglan sweater in the process of being knit, laid out on a peacock green chenille chair.

Pattern: The Step By Step Sweater by Florence Miller
Yarn: Debbie Bliss Cashmerino Aran in Heather (color #300046)

old lady bee@oldladybee· 15d

Echinacea, just beginning to bloom. I love its little Elizabethan ruff. #flowers #garden

Closeup side-shot of an Echinacea flower just beginning to bloom, with skinny pink petals and a swirl of skinny green leaves, folded down around the bottom of the bloom in 4 alternating layers. Background is verdant green with spots of bright yellow and vibrant pink blossoms.

old lady bee@oldladybee· 15d

Gorgeous Gladiolus! I call them flaming swords, and dry the spent, unbroken spears to use in protection magic. #witchsky #flowers

A small bouquet of Gladiolus flowers. Light pink and yellow in the center, and dark pink at the edge of the frilly petals, with tall, sturdy green stems. Background is dark.

old lady bee@oldladybee· 15d

Calendula

old lady bee@oldladybee· 16d

A teeny tiny western honey bee, Apis mellifera, napping on weathered Echinachea petals. So many pollinators in the garden this year!! 💜 #bees #garden #flowers #insects

A closeup shot of a little bee, about the width of the pink flower petals it is resting on. One big beautiful eye is visible and two tiny antennae. It's body is fuzzy and dark yellow/almost brown. The wings are completely translucent and folded down on its back. The Echinacea petals have seen better days, are a faded pink, and have several small holes.

old lady bee@oldladybee· 16d

Allium flowers look like fireworks to me. Planted them to prevent the voles from eating the roots of my azaleas. Supposedly voles don't like the smell/taste of allium (onion and garlic). No voles this year. Maybe it worked? #garden #flowers

5 pink flowers on tall skinny green stems. Each flower head looks like a spray of fireworks.

old lady bee@oldladybee· 17d

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is the definition of perfection.

Album cover art: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Gold and orange tones. A sketch of the artist's face that almost looks like block print. At the top is a pencil in a groove revealing you are looking at the surface of a wooden school desk and the drawing is carved into the wood.

old lady bee@oldladybee· 18d

Beautiful visitor in the #garden today. I believe it's a spicebush swallowtail #butterfly.

Closeup photo of the side view of a mostly black butterfly with white, orange and light blue spots on its wings. Its body is black and covered with white spots in a linear pattern. At the back/bottom tip of each wing are little extensions that almost resemble little tails. It is sitting on a green leaf under an Echinacea flower.

old lady bee@oldladybee· 21d

#knitting #knitsky Attempting my first knit sweater. It's a bit messy and has been frogged and restarted twice...but now the collar is done and the yoke is underway and I am just so damned pleased with myself right now!!

The collar and yoke of a knit sweater in process on the cable of circular needles. Light lilac color. It sits on my lap, I'm wearing black pants.

Pattern: handmade by florence's
Step By Step Sweater

Yarn: Debbie Bliss cashmerino aran

old lady bee@oldladybee· 28d

The yellow tint to this picture is not a filter. It's the haze of wildfire smoke from fires many-hundreds of miles away. #garden #flowers #wildfires

old lady bee@oldladybee· Jul 5

The neighborhood is a cacophony of chaos, with generators roaring, sirens screaming, chainsaws buzzing as we clean up the mess after the storm. This little oasis survived both the heatwave and the subsequent hail, wind and monsoon. I think every pollinator for miles has visited today. 💜🐝

old lady bee@oldladybee· Jul 5

These beauties stayed in tight buds through the furnace-blast heatwave. One night of rain and they all opened up, ready for harvest. Power will likely be out a few more days and the generator juice is sparce, so air-drying them instead of using a dehydrator. #herbs #flowers #calendula

Bright orange Calendula blossoms rest on a stainless steel rack propped up on empty jars atop a dehydrator. Behind is a window with closed white blinds, and walls painted purple. I'm so glad I staggered my seed sowing, so new buds will pop open every week.

old lady bee@oldladybee· Jul 2

Upside: jury duty cancelled due to extreme heat!

old lady bee@oldladybee· Jun 29

Same title, same author, same content. The one on the right was published in 2013 by Llewellyn. The one on the left by Crossed Crow Books in 2026. I stupidly assumed the new one must be an updated version, but nope. 🤦‍♀️Oh well, another witchy book for the neighborhood little free library! #witchsky

Two paperback versions of the same book, "The Magic of Flowers" by Tess Whitehurst. Very similar cover design of a nosegay of flowers. Left is on a navy blue background, right is on a light green background.

old lady bee@oldladybee· Jun 27

Finally surfacing from a bad illness flare. Happy to have the energy to sit up and knit. This one was a doozy. #ShowMeYourKnits blue week. WIP: Hip to be Square Blanket by Jennifer Braico, yarn: KC Splendid Superwash Merino in Sapphire Star

A blue knitted blanket, still in progress and on a set of circular needles rests on my lap. My big purple sneakers and nerd socks appear in the upper left corner.

old lady bee@oldladybee· Jun 24

The bees be bee-balming.

Very close shot of a fuzzy yellow bee with black stripes and translucent wings on the hot-pink petals of a bee-balm flower.

old lady bee@oldladybee· Jun 24

The first calendula of the season is about to open! #flowers #bloomscrolling #garden

Macro shot of an orangy-yellow caldendula blossom head, not quite opened, petals still tight in a ball, bedecked with a few dew drops. The rest of the frame is filled with out-of-focus, verdant green leaves.

old lady bee@oldladybee· Jun 21

...and this year's bunch from the local farmer's market.

Tight shot of a bouquet of Stock flowers in white, pinks, and purple.

old lady bee@oldladybee· Jun 19

Spirea up close and afar. #bloomscrolling #flowers #gardening

old lady bee@oldladybee· Jun 17

It's a good day for a nosegay. Spirea and Bee Balm. The Spirea smells wierdly vegetal, and the Bee Balm smells like minty lemons. #flowers #gardening

A blurry hand holding a blurry silver vase containing clear and vibrant hot pink bee balm blossoms and spirea blossoms. The bee balm petals look like hot pink shooting flames, and the spirea look like pink floof.

old lady bee@oldladybee· Jun 17

Planted this dainty and dark Clematis 2 yrs ago. She shares the trellis with a big dishplate white variety (both are type 3, but I don't remeber the names). Last year she didn't do well, but this year she's spreading out and staking her claim to the sun. #flowers #garden

Two five-petaled maroon red Clematis blooms with tiny light-yellow centers, nestled among big verdant green leaves glittering with dew drops.

old lady bee@oldladybee· Jun 16

The Bee Balm blossoms are waking up!

Three hot pink Bee Balm blossoms, each with 12 or 13 petals shaped like long narrow shooting flames, nestled among shiny blade-shaped verdant green leaves.

old lady bee@oldladybee· Jun 16

@gavinfoxauthor.bsky.social #projektsolarsigil Sigil...day 3

Line art drawing. A square with seemingly random vertical and diagonal lines inside. But, not really random.

old lady bee@oldladybee· Jun 16

This Echinacea pupurea "Magnus" is huuuge. It's almost up to my shoulder, and I'm a tall gurl.

Head of a tall flower, pink petals and red spikey stuff in the middle. Directly behind it is the shoulder and arm of a woman in a white solar suit (me and the sun don't get along these days), and behind that is a red shed that needs a new coat of paint.

old lady bee@oldladybee· Jun 15

The Astilbes are putting on a lovely, floofy show. String them together and we'd have a glorious feather boa.