You Should be Jealous of Me

Yesterday I had the first strawberries (except for the ones the birds ate) from our yard. Nom, nom.

Back to Dyeing

Yew is one of those plants which gets attributed powers. Grows slow, famous for bows and so forth. I recognized the picture in my dyeing book as "that bush with gooshy red berries" (my method of plant recognition is idiosyncratic, ask me about "yellow driveway weed" someday). Then I couldn't find any until yesterday. First I found some on campus. Then I read that they take forever to grow, so I shouldn't harvest much. Then I realized I had a dead yew bush in my front yard that I'd been meaning to take out.

So I did this morning, and chopped it into pieces. I might still grab some leaves (small amount) from campus, but the wood seems to give a pink color (for me, book says I should have oranges and tans).