When I left Vienna for Great Britain, the weather had warmed up enough to regret leaving, but the trees and plants still wore their dour winter clothes. Imagine my surprise to find this in colder, northerly Great Britain:
Luckily, since coming back to Vienna the trees here seem also to have bedecked themselves in fresh spring leaves as well. Blooming flowers abound. Going through the University’s Botanical Gardens on my way home from a walk, I found a couple of things that absolutely floored me with happiness:
Can you tell what it is? Maybe you should click on the picture to go to the Flickr page and view the bigger version. Or maybe that’s enough. You see, that tiny, thin, TALL! shoot that looks like a weed is asparagus! My favorite vegetable of all. I wonder how old these shoots are: are they old enough to eat, or are they in their second or even their first year? I can’t wait to go back to see how its growth progresses.
What else did I see in the garden?
What I am fairly certain is a strawberry patch. Blooming! Soon there will be gorgeous, succulent strawberries falling off of those flowers. I’ve been craving strawberries like there’s no tomorrow lately. I can’t WAIT for these to grow up! I’ll know then that I can get really good strawberries at the supermarket then. (I hope! I keep trying and being disappointed.)
So. Onto my serious topic for the day. I realized today that because I didn’t want to write in my journal, or at Sunbeam Soapbox, or do anything useful meant I had to write in my journal. I had a block and writing there somehow set it free. So here I am again, and I have new terms for my blogging here.
Why new terms? Because the old ones don’t work anymore. I opened this blog to get to know more knitters: but that didn’t work. Maybe I’m too young to enter the knitting community. I don’t know what went “wrong”. But ever since finishing my witchy socks my knitting has been haphazard and has no spirit. Spring has sprung, and my creativity is spilling over from knitting to other venues: writing, doodling, sitting in the sun and thinking. I don’t want to restrain my blog because I don’t want to knit. So from now on? What goes here is what I want to write. No limits. Even if there aren’t pictures. I am first and foremost a writer, so posts with only writing will occur!
What else? I will try my hardest to reach out to others. Not only with comments but e-mails to blog owners. I am here to make connections and get to know people through the Internet. I want to get to know YOU. So I will start dropping people e-mails to say hello. And I want people to feel welcome to e-mail me too.
I am here, I want to get to know you. We can even be penpals!
Here’s my challenge to you, to help me spread good cheer through the Internet: E-mail a blog owner you want to get to know. Say hello! Tell him/her why you’re dropping a note and why you admire this person and would like to get to know him/her better. See what happens. :)
When I started my blog, it was mostly going to be about knitting, the point being to connect with other knitters. Ravelry is better for that now, and also I don’t seem to get a lot of readership on my blog. So I don’t just write about knitting, just what’s on my mind. It’s actually easier to just write because then I don’t have to do the whole upload-pictures-to-flickr-and-the-blog-and-ravelry. I don’t really have all the time in the world to do that, and I would rather be knitting to begin with. While I would love to have a lot of readers, I think the only way I’m going to get a large group is to publish a book or pattern in knitty. Both of which I want to do, But don’t have don’t have time/ideas for now.
I really enjoy reading your blog and posting comments and reading your comments on my blog. It’s nice to know someone reads my blog!
Speaking of penpals, I’m STILL a miserable one. I’m going to get to your letter today, I promise!
Have an awesome time in München!
Although my country (Singapore) is usually referred to as a ‘garden city’ due to its so-called abundant greenery and foliage, it is still nowhere near the countryside scenery and blooms commonly seen in other countries. (Which is partly the reason why I love to travel so much.) The plus side of it is that I get to observe and admire the various quirky buildings that are coming up in the next few months or so – so I’d still be observing beauty, albeit of a different type.
Anyway, I doubt I can ever say this enough – but THANK YOU for always being there. (: For your constant reassuring comments, asking me about how I am, and dropping me emails once in a while!
Oh those tulips are so beautiful!!! And I’m excited for you about those strawberries… My mom usually plants strawberries but the weather has been crazy this year so she hasn’t found a good time to plant them =/
I think your new terms are great :) Will definitely email you one of these days… I wouldn’t dare be anyone’s pen pal at this point as I haven’t written back the 5 people who have sent me multiple letters since college started!