I've spent the last few days trying to get more of my yarn stash photographed and entered into Ravelry. As I spend more time knitting, I've learned to recognize yarns I won't want to knit socks with (yes, there are a few) and I added them to my Stash-->trade page on Ravelry. Now I can start connecting the yarns to the projects I have in mind.

In the midst of all this photography, I've been taking pictures of the pets doing fun things and even some pictures of knitting. I use the term "photography" at it's most amateur level, despite some little trade tricks I picked up growing up with a photographer. I'd love to create one of these:

That would make taking pictures of my knitting so much easier. For now, you get pictures like this:

That's my work on GoddessKnits' Spring Mystery Shawl. You can click on the pictures to see them larger, if you'd like. I'm using Jaggerspun Zephyr Wool-Silk 2/8 in "Bottle Green" (I bought a whole cone!) with a Czech glass 6/0 seed bead mix called "Oceanic Mix" from Beadaholique.

When I'm not actually knitting these days, I'm being entertained by my zoo:

Click on any of those images to see the flickr page for them. I'm trying to add descriptions as I go---but there's been a lot of uploading lately! I'm up to 90-some odd yarns in my stash now. Wow! I'm debating whether I should put my roving in there as well. I mean....it is stash, right?

I'm not sure if I've mentioned it here or now, but Randy's boss from the Racket is coming to ASU to work with him at the Mars Space Flight Facility! I'm totally excited about that: we'll get to hang out with Chris and his wife! (Note: I know her name, you might know her name, but on her blog, she posts as "excruciatingly" and on her husband's blog, he always calls her some variant of "the wife". Despite her being a big blogger in Savannah, I sure don't want to be the one who puts her name out there for the world to write down! *grin*)

Privacy is an interesting concept in this day and age, isn't it? I always think about it when some news program is running "stock footage" of certain people-types for health or social topics. Like the videos of overweight/obese people when new findings regarding weight come in. They always show these really heavy people minus their heads. Do the video guys who go out and film this have to get permission to use the footage or does it fall under some "freedom of expression"?

If I know you in real life and I want to blog about something you and I did together, am I intruding on your right to privacy? Here on my blog, I use real names for everyone I do name, so I try to stand in the shoes of anyone I might be talking about and see if I'd mind that kind of information going on someone's blog. Perhaps my father wouldn't like what I said in bad news and good news, but I spoke to him and told him what I'd written--just told him, 'cause I'm not expecting miracles and progress here.

Anyway, chime in in the comments with your thoughts on privacy and blogging (I'm sure that topic's already been done to death by others.... now it's my turn!).