I've just finished cutting umpteen-dozen-plus strips for the new quilt. Now, mind you I shouldn't really be working on a new quilt, but I suppose it's one of those things that just has to happen when its time comes. So I cut out a pile of pink strips, and a pile of green strips and they're looking pretty good. All this despite the fact that I'm pretty much not thought of as a "pink and green" kinda person. It's not what you think. And it's definitely not the cute little pink and green you might imagine.
Anyway, it occurred to me while I was rearranging a few of the strips that it's really ALL about color. Robins' egg blue, sky blue, sky blue pink, rosebud pink, garden green, fields of gold. Keep your eyes open at all times.
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6:57:20 PM
First the earth moves. Then a robin flies away from the front porch to show this. Like a bit of sky on a grey rainy day. The world is full of surprises if you keep your eyes open and keep looking up.
And while we're looking up at the sky, how about this wonderful moon photo? Thanks NASA.
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11:53:17 PM
OK, silliness is down the hall.
Today was silly by some standards, and exciting by others. At work, the excitement was all about lunchbreak. During lunch I had my ears pierced again. Yes, now I have not one, not two, but four holes in my head. At least, holes in my ears. I feel very cool.
On the way home, I was surrounded by spectacular sky. Gold on the south west, towering pink edged thunderheads ahead in the east. whoa. I raced home and went out on the roof. Below are some of my shots.
Forsythia, shot from above I noticed how strange the forsythia looked in the odd evening glow, so I took a few photos. They weren't quite this odd, but I didn't adjust this photo's color, just the normal levels tweaking.
It's true that many people think I'm talented, creative even. Little do they know that when it comes to floral applique.... let's just say I'm working on four simple basket blocks. I'm directed to fill each basket with some simple floral fillings. I'm shown examples: roses, bee balm, cockscomb.... what did I end up with? Two things that my husband deemed were prickly pears -- I was going for some sort of cactus, so I guess that wasn't too bad. Although he did say if I put small eyes on them, they'd look like rabbits. Oh dear. My other choice was a very simple folded flower. Tried yo-yos. Nope. These came out looking something like mutant pinks. Oh dear.
