Throwback Thursday: ruffle scarf

On By CarynIn Craft

Today is a throwback with a current twist. As I was going through pictures from 2015 I found one in April of my first ruffle scarf. These scarves are knit from machine made lace. The lace comes wrapped like chunky yarn, and if you knit 6 stitches wide, just picking up one edge of the lace, the lace spirals out and around the central knitted core.

Photo description: red ruffle scarf from April of 2015
Photo description: purple ruffle scarf from July 2025

I just made another of these from yarn my Mom sent as packing material for a package. They can be a bit tricky because the lace needs to be fanned out to find the edge, but once I get the groove, it goes pretty quickly.

Painted bunting

On By CarynIn photography, Wildlife

I added a bird to my list of sightings! We had a painted bunting visit our bird feeder. What a pretty bird!

Photo description: Painted Bunting perched on a rope

He was flirting with a female on the new bird feeder, and I love this photo where the female is getting after him and I caught him leaning away.

Photo description: female (left) and a male (right) painted bunting on a dragonfly decorated birdfeeder

Who is watching who?

On By CarynIn photography, Wildlife

We actually saw a deer with our own eyes in the back yard, rather than just a picture from the trail cam. She was watching us watching her. She was OK until I walked toward her with my big camera. Then she decided to find forage elsewhere.

Photo description: doe behind a wire fence looking at the camera

My husband spotted a hawk in the trees, so again I took my big camera to take a picture. The young hawk also kept a keen eye on me, but this time I did not scare it off.

Photo description: young hawk on a dead branch looking back at the camera

Happy

On By CarynIn Wildlife

So this is my happiest sight on the trail cam: a raccoon. Two years ago this would not have been unusual, but it has been a year and a half since the raccoon colony in our woods was wiped out, probably by distemper. It brightens my heart to see them on the cam again.

Photo description: night vision trail cam photo of an opossum young raccoon

Possum

On By CarynIn Wildlife

Is it me, or does this look like an old opossum? Maybe it is because it is in the middle of a good ear scratch, but the scene gives me cantankerous old dude vibes.

Photo description: night vision trail cam photo of an opossum scratching its ear with a hind leg