knit one, perl one, knit one...

it's that time of year again. the summer has seeminly disapeared. school is over. camp is over. all of the international camp girls have gone back to their countries. my european adventure has come and gone. soon it will be busy bee day at camp, and i'll be there helping to pull the docks out of the water...

my bed is right next to a window.. i start noticing the switch at night while falling asleep.. i can feel the cool breeze that just smells and feels like fall. it starts to put me into a knitting frenzy during the day. i spend most of the year keeping an eye out for bright soft yarn, because my favorite part about the fall and the winter is colorful, soft, warm, home made scarfs. this is about the time of year that i start rooting them out of the closets and from the bottom of my laundry baskets. i take them all down to the laundromat to wash them. i never use the regular laundry detergent. i go and try to find the sweetest, most delicious smells i can find, wash them, and then dry them with way too many dryer sheets. they come out smelling amazing and feeling so, so soft... it's my absolute favorite part about autumn.

yesterday was a wonderful day. i was still kind of tired, but the weather was so nice i decided to make it a beach day with rain and nessa. the weather may have been gorgeous, but nahant beach kind of kicked our asses. the wind was blowing alot of sand, and the ocean was red with seaweed and what looked like little plankton-esque organisms. we ended up sunbathing and making sandcastles... it was great.