Adam & his butter sculptures

On Friday, I went to Toronto to surprise Adam at the Royal Winter Fair, hoping to catch him happily sculpting butter in the cooler.  Thanks to texting between siblings, it didn't work out to be a surprise, but it was a great visit.   There were some beautiful sculptures in the slippery substance, and Adam won 1st prize for his barnyard animals.  He was busy sculpting a rooster when I arrived.

I've had a little time to do some additional dyeing of the handspun wool--on the left is the zinnia dye, the centre skein is dyed with fennel in the dyepot and a few rusty screws for iron, and on the right a rich brown obtained from sumac flowers & wild grapes

some gorgeous lichen on a birch log