1 million meters is just over 620 miles. Next milestone is 2 million!

These calla lilies have a very different look from the more traditional white ones.

Made 3 calla lilies Sunday afternoon. A quick project after the finickiness of the cosmos. I quite like the way they turned out.

I have been working on these cosmos flowers for what seems like ages. The petals are not difficult, but the stamens and, especially. the leaves are very time consuming. The next project will probably be something simpler, maybe a calla lily.

In March I went for “rainbow” and 4-leaf clover; here are the results:

Today I got “speckled eggs” and a bunny:

Here are the first two colors of Cosmos flowers I’m making:

Last September my average split time (the time it takes to row 500 meters) was 3 minutes and 30 seconds. Yesterday, I improved on that to 3:18. I dropped my overall time, then, by 10 minutes: 2 hours and 20 minutes of actual rowing time.

Every once in a while I get a picture in my mind of a flower arrangement I want to make. This month I kept picturing jasmine flowers with a little elephant figurine that I have. Today I put the elements together and I’m quite pleased with it.

One problem with paper flowers, of course, is that they don’t have the scent of real ones. For this arrangement I am trying a new solution to this. The round piece of wood holds a piece of lava rock. I bought some jasmine flower essence and put about four drops onto the lava over a week ago. It still smells faintly of jasmine, and I can refresh the scent at any time. I am going to try this with more flowers.

On Monday, I hit 500,000 meters. My app tells me that is equivalent to rowing the length of Lake Michigan. I started in July, but I started out slowly. I’m hoping to hit the next goal a little faster. Aiming for 1,000,000 meters by August.

My workout room is mostly done. I need to put a mirror up on the wall with the carp picture. It was a pleasure to start really using it last week.