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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!

Tulip Placemats

While internet surfing, I came across a cute tulip tutorial by Kristina at Center Street Quilts.

Tulip Placemats

If I sewed three tulip blocks to make one placemat, the size would be 15″ x 18″…exactly the size of my accent tables (I have two of them…his and her’s you know)!

I wanted to get this made last month, to replace the Valentine placemats that are still on my tables.

Tulip Placemats

I don’t have to decorate ‘in season’, do I?

Tulip Placemats

One day, I might have enough seasonal table toppers/placemats to decorate in a timely manner.

Tulip Placemats

That’s the goal.

Tulip Placemats

Quilt On!

Birdhouse UFO Finished!

Birdhouse Wall Hanging

It feels great to have another UFO completed! The birdhouse was begun in 1995 (you can read about it here and here), and I lost interest.

I set a goal in 2017 to do something with this project, and I lost interest.

In 2020, I actually worked on it (I shared here). Life happened. My sewing machine needed a new part, and the part sat off the coast in a cargo ship for months (Thank you, Covid).

Birdhouse Wall Hanging

My sewing machine is repaired, and I chose this month to push through! I am done with it cluttering up my mind and taking space in the sewing studio!

Birdhouse Wall Hanging

Funny thing…

Birdhouse Wall Hanging

I lost interest because I didn’t like it. Once I came up with a plan…well…

I like it!

Birdhouse Wall Hanging

It needs a name.

Birdhouse Wall Hanging

Hubby suggested ‘Spring Song’.

Birdhouse Wall Hanging

Do you have a suggestion?

Birdhouse Wall Hanging
Birdhouse Wall Hanging

Quilt On!

Visiting My Daughter-Day One

Hubby and I took a much needed vacation (I was becoming really, really whiny) and visited our daughter and her family. What a joy to take a road trip and be blessed to see family!

Rhododendron

Our daughter loves photography, so she and I just hung out and practiced together. Enjoy the stroll in her little garden!

Rhododendron
Rhododendron

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Snail
Laura

Yes, folks, this is me…not ashamed to look silly. Ha, ha! Oh, yes…I do wear that hat in public!

Daisy

And this is the result of my efforts!

Daisy
Snail
Blueberry
Blueberry
Lavender

It was breezy and I had such a tough time getting a photo of the bee on the lavender!

Lavender

Don’t forget to get outside and see the little things!

Stay safe!

A Stroll in the Garden

If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze

Balsam Arrowroot

that it made you want to throw
open all the windows in the house

Balsam Arrowroot

and unlatch the door to the canary’s cage,
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,

Balsam Arrowroot

a day when the cool brick paths
and the garden bursting with peonies

Balsam Arrowroot

seemed so etched in sunlight
that you felt like taking

Crown Imperial

a hammer to the glass paperweight
on the living room end table,

Crown Imperial

releasing the inhabitants
from their snow-covered cottage

Crown Imperial

so they could walk out,
holding hands and squinting

Rusted Wheel

into this larger dome of blue and white,
well, today is just that kind of day.

Daffodil

From Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems by Billy Collins

Hyacinth

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