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why, it’s time for some eye candy!

Apology in advance: I’ve been listening to the Cast-On podcast pretty much nonstop for the past few days (on my walk to work, on my walk home from work, sometimes for small stretches while at work (as an editor, it is next to impossible to do my actual work while listening to a podcast, so I’ve been using this as “breaks”), while knitting on the couch, and for the past 3 hours, because I took the day off of work), which means I’m starting to talk a little like her. That is, I’m using phrases like “that is,” and I’m pausing in particular ways–though perhaps that isn’t so apparent in the written word–and I’m using parenthetical comments, and long series of things in one sentence; you get the idea. So I don’t know how I’m going to be writing this blog entry . . .

Today’s eye candy is also mouth candy. Uh, wait, that is a really weird way to put it. What I mean is that not only are the photos nice to look at, but the subjects were tasty to eat. Yes, a food-related eye candy. Nothing absurd or found on the ground on South Street, I promise.

eye candy friday

Just yesterday I was blogsurfing, and I read about PurlyWhite’s Eye Candy Friday. I love this idea, because lately I’ve been stopping to take shots of the absurd things I see around the city. No longer do I pass something and think “I wish I had a picture of that”—now I actually stop and pull out the camera. It’s how I got those shots of the strange knitted boots.

A few weeks ago, on my way to work, I came across this horrifying sight:

purple

I’m going to just go ahead and post my Project Spectrum post for July now, even though the month is only half over. Because there’s no way I’m going to discover any purple or even knit with it. It’s not that I dislike purple, don’t get me wrong. It’s a perfectly nice color. But I’ve discovered that it’s practically nonexistent in my life.