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Walk to Wonderwood Park

No sewing happening, but lots of fun genealogy and visiting with family, so all is good!

Currently, I am blessed to be on the west side of my state visiting with my son and his fam. Double blessed, since Spring is happening here, and it is still snowing on my side of the state.

So I took my new camera out for a walk to Wonderwood Park and recorded the greening of the land!

Those that aren’t experiencing Spring, but are longing for it (It is coming!), please enjoy the blooms, the greens, and the textures through these photos!

Walk to Wonderwood Park

” Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Walk to Wonderwood Park

“Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” — Luther Burbank

Walk to Wonderwood Park

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

Walk to Wonderwood Park

“My favorite weather is bird chirping weather.” — Terri Guillemets

Walk to Wonderwood Park

“If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.” — Victor Hugo

Walk to Wonderwood Park

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.” — Oscar Wilde

Walk to Wonderwood Park

“In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” — Mark Twain

Walk to Wonderwood Park

“Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.” — Bishop Reginald Heber

Walk to Wonderwood Park

“Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” — Virgil A. Kraft

Walk to Wonderwood Park

“Spring drew on…and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.” — Charlotte Brontë

Walk to Wonderwood Park

“Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” — Lilly Pulitzer

Walk to Wonderwood Park

Stay healthy.

Stay safe.

Keep smiling.

See the world around you!

Traffic Jam One – It’s A Flimsy!

It is a bit overcast today, and a good time to show you the progress on Traffic Jam One.

Traffic Jam

It has been a flimsy for a few days now, but work and a couple of sunny afternoons prevented me from taking photos.

Traffic Jam

I had a bit of trouble finishing up this flimsy.  Call it ‘airhead moments’, ‘senioritis’, or just a lack of concentration.  

I thought that I had miscalculated and did not have enough cut green squares.

So I cut and cut and sewed my borders.

And my borders were too long.

And I miscalculated my miscalculations and never really miscalculated to begin with.

Here is what is leftover:

Traffic Jam

I will find a purpose for the parts eventually.

Of course, that defeats the original purpose of using up all of those scraps… in this quilt… in the first place.

Traffic Jam

Looks a bit like a stained glass window from the back:

Traffic Jam

Traffic Jam Two in progress:

Traffic Jam

Previous Traffic Jam Posts:

Pat Sloan’s Pattern

Traffic Jam One Update

What was I doing on the sunny afternoons after work?

Why, pruning and raking, and making discoveries in the garden, of course!

Here are just a few of my discoveries:

Crocus

Lots of crocus!

Crocus

Lots of daffodils (and larkspur)!

Daffodils

Stately Crown Imperials!

Crown Imperial

Fragrant Hyacinths!

Hyacinth

Lots of budding shrubs, including this elderberry!

Elderberry

“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” — Rainer Maria Rilke