Kim Smith

@kimshere.bsky.social

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Multipotentialite: Naturalist, native plant gardener, reader, writer, knitter, #bugdork. Toledo, Ohio. I write at natureismytherapy.com. 📚 🧶 Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness. (Desmond Tutu)

A hand-knitted shirt in a light brown yarn, laid out on gray blocking mats on the grass. Beside the blocking mats is an Adirondack chair painted sky blue with a matching table beside it.
A small bag of purple fleece in a wooden bowl on a tabletop. Beside it is a mahogany finish drop spindle with a how-to guide from the manufacturer, Kromski. Beside both is a flat, flower-shaped piece of yellow pottery imprinted with a bumblebee image.
Screenshot of the book cover for "Enormous Wings" by Laurie Frankel
We float under this awesome bridge just after launching our kayaks.
A small beetle on a leaf. His closed wings are marked with bold black and yellow lengthwise stripes. His thorax and head are yellow with black spots.
Two books stacked on top of each other, with the edges of the pages facing the camera. The book on top has an image of colorful flowers painted on the edges of the pages. The one on the bottom has an image of mushrooms painted on the pages. I bought the one on top, Where the Wildflowers Grow by Terah Shelton Harris
A partially knitted summer top in a light brown cotton yarn, with a lace pattern going up the side of the sleeve. The project is lying on top of a sage green leather ottoman.
Large dragonfly perched on a rock facing the camera. He has huge green eyes, a large brown thorax with wide yellow stripes, and a large club at the end of his abdomen, both of which also have yellow markings.
A moss green hand knitted sweater laid out flat on a hardwood floor. The sweater is knitted with an all-over design of vertical eyelets.
Male robin with a beak full of mealworms he's gathered from a terra cotta dish.
Male and female robin with worm, feeding their tiny chicks about a week ago. Nest is in my backyard and I've been documenting it since they started building it on May 1st. Story on my blog in bio.
A close-up photo of a mourning dove in profile showing the details of his/her blue eye-ring and iridescent pink neck feathers.
A swatch of a knitted sweater in a beautiful mossy green yarn with yellowish green slubs.
In-progress pic of a cardigan in a deep mossy green yarn with vertical lines of an eyelet lace pattern. The sweater is lying on a hardwood floor, and resting atop the sweater is a yarn bowl that I made in a pottery class several years ago. The yarn bowl is made with coils of clay stacked a top each other and topped with a rim of twisted coils. The glaze is a robin's egg blue that lets some of the brown clay show through.
Cover image of a book called The Mountains We Call Home, by Kim Michele Richardson.
Katydid perched on the hairy gold and red stems of a sumac shrub. His body is green, head is brown, eyes are bright yellow beads. His long bent legs are yellow and black. He's perched sideways to the camera, and it appears he's looking sideways toward the photographer (me).
View of the garden cardigan from the front as I'm working down towards the bottom hem. Yarn is a gorgeous mossy green in Acadia by The Fiber Co.
A mass of purple violets growing in my lawn.
Red white and blue image of the outline of Ohio covered by the words "I voted Ohio."
A partially knitted sweater in gray yarn in a broken rib stitch pattern. On top of the sweater sits a brown wooden yarn bowl with an inlaid flower design. Sweater pattern is the Anacorte pullover. I love this design so much and it's killing me to not be able to work on it because of my elbow injury.
Piece of knitted fabric in a bright moss green yarn. The fabric has parallel columns of eyelets between sections of stockinette stitch.
A collage of four photos in a square shape with a pink background. Clockwise from top left, species are: bleeding hearts, calico pennant dragonfly, small milkweed bug and carrot plant bug.
Partially assembled Miss BB cardigan, laid out on a countertop. The sweater is knitted in a brown yarn with patterns of cables and other textures, and a shawl collar.
Woman standing in her garden modeling a knitted top with a textured motif and scalloped hem, knitted in a light blue yarn. Behind her are tall goldenrod flowers and a garden shed.
A tubular knitted fabric in a bright green hand-painted yarn, lying on a wood floor. Beside the hat are ceramics with dragonfly images on them.
A small circle of knitted fabric in a bright green yarn with stitches radiating out from the center. The knitting is adorned with beaded stitch markers, one of which is a pink bead with a dragonfly charm. The fabric is held in the palm of a hand.
A grouping of knitted winter hats lying in a pile on a wood floor. These were donated to the unhoused in southeast Michigan.
Wooden table piled high with stacks of hand knitted hats and scarves. In the background are dozens of cubbies loaded with colorful yarns at my local yarn store.