lilac?

... or rather grey? the colour of the week (or what's left of it) is lilac, but outside it was grey all day. we had drizzle since yesterday afternoon, then a break of an hour or so - and then the real rain started! good thing that I took pictures before - I don't think my camera is rainfast enough:)) so here they come, some of the lilac colours - mostly flowers, but one with a few yarns as well. those are blends, which I made following a photo of fritillaries as inspiration. the tapestry weaving hasn't grown one bit since may, but before I do anything more than knitting  my leaf scarf or spinning a bit of cotton in front of the tv - I have to clear out my room. ongoing for some time now; amazing how much stuff fits into one room.....

the rest of the pix shows plants from my garden. some lavender (stoechas), honesty, aquilegia, spotted orchids (dactylorhiza) and, one of my favourites: thalictrum aquilegifolium in the upper left corner. unfortunately several of the high flower stems have been flattened by the strong winds in recent days, but I managed to stake them a bit - belated, I know. the orchids are very common in the bog here and years back I collected some seeds - which to my surprise grew well and have been spreading by themselves all around my garden and even in some pots! there are quite a few rare flowers growing in the bog, several other species of orchids, grass of parnassus (which didn't grow from seed for me:(() and even butterwort (pinguicula), a carnivorous plant that catches small insects with sticky leaves. what I find amazing though - most neighbours here don't seem to know anything about those rare plants around them! whenever I talk to them about it, they don't believe me when I tell them about carnivorous plants right on their doorsteps or plenty of different orchid varieties growing in the bog! talking about the far away hills always being greener - they travel to the canaries and elsewhere to look at rare flowers - instead of just taking an afternoon to check what's around them.... I know that cars are convenient - but you miss all those small things around you!