Lace Tree

This was on Craftzine's blog today. As someone who has struggled with lace knitting, it blew my mind.

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2008/06/lacewrapped_tree.html

Flooding

For anyone wondering what's up with the flooding in Central Iowa, all I can tell you is that we had some minor flooding downtown this morning, but we are only a little flooded thus far. It rained pretty hard this morning, which caused some flooding downtown, but I've heard that has gone down. The bridges are still visible, though they may be covered later in the week. Our local NBC affiliate (and my former employer) has some good video you can check out on their site: www.whotv.com

If I see any flooding personally, I'll take some pics and post them. I wasn't here during the floods of '93, so this is all pretty new to me.

The Ring, The Wrap, and The Candidate

We had no internet access at home for most of last week, but I have now uploaded all the pictures off of my camera onto flickr. Here are the highlights:

My ring:



The knitting project I'm working on (it will be a wrap when it is finished):




Here's some video I took at the Obama Rally on May 20th in downtown Des Moines. There were several thousand people there, and we arrived too late to get in a good position to see the stage. As it got darker, it was really hard for me to get a good shot of anything, but I did use the video camera feature on my Kodak to catch this video of Michelle Obama and daughter walking across the stage:



I had to hoist my camera over my head and aim blindly to get that footage, and I guess I got lucky. I never did get to see Obama, however, but I heard the speech. Some of it can be found on my flickr page, with additional photos of the event.

For anyone hearing about the tornadoes, storms, and floods out here, we are fine. There has been some flooding in the area, but the worst of it is not in our neck of the woods. I heard this morning that they are sandbagging in the Iowa City area like crazy, as there's a good chance the town could be flooded. The levels of the river out there are similar to those from 1993, which is known as "the big one" throughout most of the Midwest. I remember visiting St. Louis that year, right after the floods. We were walking out of a restaurant and noticed a street sign poking out of the water. That's when we realized that this restaurant was not beach-front property normally.