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Patriotic Table Topper Part 2

I have not accomplished a lot since my last post about the progress of this table topper.

Courthouse Table Topper

I have add sashing between the blocks.

Courthouse Table Topper

And I have added a border.

Courthouse Table Topper

Courthouse Table Topper

I want to add one more border. Who knows how to pull more time from a hat?

Quilt On!

A Stroll in the Garden

Crabapple

It’s a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don’t know about you, but I make plenty. You can’t turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead. -Mel Gibson

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Transparent Apple

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.” -T. S. Eliot

Transparent Apple

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. -Desmond Tutu

Transparent Apple

Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be. -Joel Osteen

Transparent Apple

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You an turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose. -Arnold Bennett

Transparent Apple

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don’t know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don’t know. -Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

Crabapple

We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars. -David Bottoms

Montmorency Cherry

Now I’ve gone for too long living like I’m not alive. So I’m going to start over tonight beginning with you and I. -Hayley Williams

Montmorency Cherry

Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. – Richie Norton

Montmorency Cherry

We grow up with such an idealistic view on how our life should be; love, friendships, a career or even the place we will live ~ only to age and realize none of it is what you expected & reality is a little disheartening, when you’ve reached that realization; you have learnt the gift of all, any new beginning can start now and if you want anything bad enough you’ll find the courage to pursue it with all you have. The past doesn’t have to be the future, stop making it so. – Nikki Rowe

Transparent Apple

Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well. – Germany Kent

Crabapple

Stay safe. Stay healthy.

See the world around you!

Steptoe Butte and Steptoe Battlefield

Hubby and I took a road trip and visited Steptoe Butte State Park. This 3,612-foot butte is a wonderful place to visit and view the surrounding Palouse (a major fertile agricultural area; the most important lentil growing region in the USA). The steptoes, or hills, are formed from lava flows.

Steptoe Butte

*Clicking on a photo will give you a closer look!

Steptoe Butte

Steptoe Butte

Steptoe Butte

The butte is named after Lieutenant Colonel Edward Steptoe.

Steptoe Butte

Steptoe Butte is a popular area for hang gliders, kite flying, paragliders, model airplane fliers and sight seers.

Steptoe Butte

From a photographer’s point of view, the best times to visit are sunrise and sunset, but the views are spectacular at any time of the day or season.

Steptoe Butte

Nearby, one can also visit Steptoe Battlefield…a sober reminder of the Battle of Pine Creek, where a conflict between  US Army forces under Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Edward Steptoe and members of the Coeur d’Alene, Palouse and Spokane Native American tribes took place.

Steptoe Battlefield

The land did not look so pastoral then. It was not farmed; it was scrubland and native grasses.

Steptoe Battlefield

Because of the many hills, it was also a difficult land in which to fight battles.

Steptoe Battlefield

Steptoe Battlefield

Steptoe Battlefield

Steptoe Battlefield

Steptoe Battlefield

Steptoe Battlefield

Steptoe Battlefield

Steptoe Battlefield

Steptoe Battlefield

The willingness of America’s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude. -Jeff Miller

*I am in no way condoning any conflicts with anyone, only commemorating every veteran’s loss of life in the performance of his/her duty.

God bless the veterans!