A Bluestocking Knits

I've left the last few letters of my ABChallenge rather long, I'm afraid, my excuses being that Nancy has been AWOL (bloggers are quiet / sometimes when life gets busy, / but they are still missed) and that X, Y, and Z are a lot harder to do than most of the previous ones!

In fact, I was a bit stumped by "Y," wanting something a bit more unusual than, say, "yellow" or "yawn," so I perused the "List of Unusual Words that Start with Y" at The Phrontistery, as one does, and while there are in fact quite a lot of unusual and interesting words that start with Y, most of them are unphotographable, at least by me — yair, a tidal enclosure for catching fish (impractical), yang-chin, a Chinese hammered dulcimer (haven't got one, alas), yare, "marked by quickness and agility, nimble" (not impossible, perhaps, but not exactly on hand, either) — but then …

"Yarborough, n., a hand in bridge or whist containing no ace and no card higher than a nine, named for Charles Anderson[-Pelham], second Earl of Yarborough, English nobleman said to have bet a thousand to one against the dealing of such a hand".  Who knew?!  I suppose I could have done yew or even yoga, but yarborough, well, even though I don't play whist or contract bridge, I can't pass that up.

These cuties bloomed the day before yesterday, just in time! —