It hasn’t been all about the day job and Bluprint class binge watching!
I have managed to get the borders sewn on my second version of Pat Sloan’s pattern Traffic Jam.
It feels good to be using up these scraps!
Previous Traffic Jam Posts:
Traffic Jam One – It’s A Flimsy!
Stay safe. Stay healthy. Quilt on!
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If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze
that it made you want to throw
open all the windows in the house
and unlatch the door to the canary’s cage,
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,
a day when the cool brick paths
and the garden bursting with peonies
seemed so etched in sunlight
that you felt like taking
a hammer to the glass paperweight
on the living room end table,
releasing the inhabitants
from their snow-covered cottage
so they could walk out,
holding hands and squinting
into this larger dome of blue and white,
well, today is just that kind of day.
From Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins
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Continuing with my hike and camera practice at Saint Paul’s Mission:
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I tried a few camera settings while taking photos of the eagle. I didn’t hit on the right combination but I enjoyed the time with this magnificent (and very patient bird).
The reflections in the lake were wonderful!
Fort Colville (Fort Colvile) would have been where you now see the drawn down river in the photo below.
The only large gravestone left is pictured below. There are a couple of rusted metal markers. That is all. None of the other gravesites are marked now.
I missed another perspective opportunity by not taking a photo of this ant hill in its entirety. This is a very large colony!
The Oregon Grape is in bud. Soon there will be yellow blossoms growing wildly all over the area.
Meantime, back home in the garden, the daffodils cheer everybody up!
Small Grecian windflowers are blooming, too!
The apricot tree blossoms provide a lovely backdrop for the showy forsythia!
Stay safe! Stay healthy!
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