another farmers market bag

Figs. Managed to bring these home, compared with my failed attempt last time at the market. Even Leo likes them nowadays. I made another linen market bag, this time in a thinner yarn and using a simpler pattern. It expands a lot length wise, and can be used as yoga mat bag as well [more project details here].

Perfect summer necklace (scroll down to see the wantworthy seasalt beach ocean frosty glass beads necklace.) by JennReeseSEVEN at etsy.

incessant meditative diligence

Oh, the pace of life in a vivid mountain village in Cyprus. Everybody is busy with two or more businesses. Only perhaps on a Sunday will people take some time off their duties.

We spent one afternoon with a lovely cousin and his wife. In the shadow on his grape veranda, at a restaurant with a spectacular mountain view and at my aunt's place. While enjoying a lovely meze at the restaurant my cousin told me about a really ill uncle in Australia. (Few days later he sadly passed away. It's two uncles in one year.)

These recent incidents somehow worries me when it comes to my aunt as she quite recently suffered a thrombosis. She's better now, and I still find her busy with her hands always occupied with something. Mostly refining nature's goods, which she's growing, collecting, sorting, cleaning, picking over, peeling etc. This afternoon in a meditative motion in silence together with her husband.

I think their diligence was rubbing off on the big kids. While the smallest was asleep the others grabbed a big bowl of black eyed beans and started peeling. They sat like that for a long time, until Leo switched his attention to the plants at my aunt's veranda. Or, more precisely to the insects on the plants. He was particularly thrilled by a green geometer to whom he found a home, in a lupinus flower.

unexpected beauty

Kids wanted to try out their new diving masks and they swam like happy frogs until their lips where blue. They discovered live starfish, triturus, sea urchin and small fishes.

Eddie has moved most of his beach activities to the sea, constantly carrying a spade, for the balance, digging sand or poking his siblings for attention. So we get into the water more these days, even if knee high.

Before leaving home I grabbed my camera in case we would leave the beach at sunset. Well homebound the light wasn't perhaps perfect, but I shot some pics of the muddy stinky area between the sea and the salt lake. Kinda beautiful.

never too late for the beach

After 17 it's still really hot and humid. A good time to head to the beach with the kids in fact, and a good time to meet up with friends.

At sunset everything turns into dreamy shades of purple, blue and pink. While the big kids where being content and longing home after plenty of playing in the water. Someone, a little one, didn't have any plans to leave.

Driving (queuing) home we passed the salt lakes at Akrotiri and the sun's reflections in the muddy waters was spectacular.  (I really must bring my "real" camera to shoot it some day. Some day.)

another saturday

Breakfast and sweet kids in bed. A morning at the local market. I brought a market bag I've made in heavy linen [more project details here].

It was so hot I forgot some super nice figs at the seller's stand. Well home I really appreciated our re-fixed air conditioner and a lemonade ice pop.

Fiddled bit with the tint and sepia of these pics as I wanted to smoothen out some annoying colour differences. Actually giving them an interesting touch. Now off to prepare for tonight's souvla grillig for our soon arriving guests.