Monday, July 24, 2017

Memory Mon 57 ~Zinnia Memories

 Having memories of the Zinnia's in Mother and Daddy's garden in July.
from a July, 2014 trip through Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania
that Mr. G and I took.

Sunday, July 23, 2017

Sun Best ~ Humming Bird House Call

 I had put up a hummingbird feeder.
 Before long I had a customer.
and some I didn't want.
 The customer was curious and cautious,


 but had a good meal.
He/she even gave a great pose.
BUT, after the meal,
he/she decided to make a house call
and flew through my open doors into the house.

Poor thing. You could tell he/she couldn't understand being able to see a tree and not get to it.
She/he never landed. Just kept those wings going.
Once she/he got behind the blinds, I was able to capture her.
Of course the heart beat matched the wing speed.
 For a long minute I felt the amazement that I was even experiencing this event,
After I took my selfish pictures,
she/he had calmed down a bit and
made me feel better to release a calm bird vs an excited bird.
I slowly released my hand,
she took a pause,
and flutter away.
It was a Sunday Best for sure.
Thank-you God for the experience.


Saturday, July 22, 2017

Quilt Shot Block ~ Elkhorn Creek Quilt Share

 Last month our Quilt Guild gave ourselves a wonderful quilt show.
We brought a quilt that had lots of meaning to us to the meeting to share.
It could be our first quilt we made, 
a quilt given to us from our family,
a quilt someone made for us,
or just a quilt full of memories over the past.
I think we even had quilts that date back to about 1930!
This post is sharing only about half of those quilts.

 This was one of the oldest, if not the oldest that was brought to the share.
 Below, a quilt made in a quilt workshop.
 One of the VERY talented ladies,
makes art quilts to represent an experience she had.
One piece depicted a Mexico vacation hurricane.
I could spend a lot of time "reading" her quilt work.







 A math teacher retired and I believe this was her first quilt after she retired.
A quilt of her school Tshirts.
Below, is the quilting you can easily see from the back.

Of course I will show the rest of the quilts,
later.
 
Sorry ladies, I couldn't remember all the stories.
I was busy trying to take pictures.

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