I bought my husband this Ice Invaders ice cube tray for his Christmas stocking. I'm trying to come up with some ridiculously nerdy cocktail to go with them. I feel like perhaps it needs to be bright green.

I'm leaving my husband and the cats at home for a two-week visit with friends and family back home. There will be some posts while I'm away, but I didn't get as many photos edited as I wanted to so they may be fewer than I originally planned.

Seascape, Clothilde, Desdemona. Three of the four shawls I've finished so far this summer.

Sun Gold Cherry tomato and Sugar Sprint pea beginnings.

Etymology: The origin of the word cuttlefish can be found in the old English term cudele, itself derived in the 1400s from the Norwegian koddi (testicle) and the Middle German kudel (pouch), a literal description of the cephalopod's shape. The Greco-Roman world valued the cephalopod as a source of the unique brown pigment released from its siphon when alarmed. Hence, the word for it in Greek and Latin is sepia (later seppia in Italian). [via Wikipedia] photo taken at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Oregon.