sewing and gardens in the wet

[mandie_rw]

Had my day off yesterday; my mom and I had made plans to go to the NJ Botanical Gardens (which are practically in New York, natch), and despite the fifteen-degree predicted difference in temperature between home and the gardens, we went anyway. It never actually rained, but was misty and wet the entire time...which I think is just as lovely as a sunny day, in a different way. We didn't realize that a location two hours' drive north would be quite a month behind in growing season, though! Their website said lilac peak season is around Mothers Day...LIES. Which was mainly what we went to see. Oh well. Still an enjoyable day!

I took a million pictures of trees and mist, because it makes me gleeful. Pretty sure I took more pictures up there than I do at most costume events, oops. Here's just a couple, because they're pretty!







I got the skirt of the teens suit put together today. Still have to do the placket, top facing, and hem, but it looks like a skirt, and that is always encouraging!

Comments

[rose-bertin.livejournal.com]

Those pictures are gorgeous!! You sure you're not in Scotland?

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

:) Don't I wish! The lower Catskills on a misty spring day aren't a bad substitution though!

[atherleisure.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the long, cold winter delayed the growing season. Things seem to be blooming later than usual in Virginia.

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Very probably - I think our flowers are a bit late here. I didn't quite expect to find a place two hours' north of us a month behind, though! It's at a considerably higher elevation, though, which probably also contributes.

[atherleisure.livejournal.com]

Here thirty miles west and 200' up make everything a week later than it is in the valley.

[girliegirl32786.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous! I love misty, rainy days in the mountains. It reminds me of where I grew up.

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? :) I think those misty days are just as pretty as the sunny ones, though in a different way.

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

Oh, how pretty!

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

It really is! We're at such a low elevation here I forget how gorgeous a misty day in the mountains can be!