Togetherness

Back to the Six Mile Cypress Slough Preserve, here is a pair to watch.Which I did not, because I did not need to know the ending of that particur story. Would you?

Finding Your Place

Happy to say that my work "Mummy Bags / Canopic Jars" won first place at the Quilts=Art=Quilts show tonight at the opening. Lucky for me, this wall!

Gators in the Cooler

While getting ice cream, I jumped when I saw this stack of (fake) alligators piled in the cooler. I would not put it out-of-mind to see the real stuff, not the fake stuffed.

Florida's Gulf, Sort of..

Water, at last, from the boardwalk at Punta Gorda looking at Port Charlotte. Quite the sun stream, 86 degrees, and inside the wharf they were hanging Christmas garland. Geesh.

Grasshopper in the Slough

I took a walk in the Six Mile Cypress Slough (pronounced "slew") and saw this dapper grasshopper. Everything is a bit different for this Northerner in the Florida climate.

Tackling the (Pretty) Job

Great bunch of very hard-working textile artists. Unlimited in energy, talent, and ability to laugh at my jokes! That would be the Art Quilters Unlimited group. It was two days of composing and creating.

Cutting up the Pretties in Florida

Palm trees just outside the window, and inside a room full of energy! What a great group to work with, and I do mean WORK. We really had those rotary cutters rolling, and tomorrow brings more tip and treats for this class. Stay tuned.

Florida and Strange Trees

Outside it is 80 degrees, this strange tree and with and orchard, no less! Florida seems strange, so far, but this week is new.

Change of Weather

They don't know it yet, but it is about to get colder, so they might start to fluff those feathers. Taken a couple of days ago in Greenville, New York, just next to the Catskills.

Thomas Cole's Front Porch

Across the bridge from Olana is the home of Thomas Cole, one of American's premier painters. It is hard to capture in this humble photo the view he saw. Better to find one of his paintings and just sit and contemplate.

Working the Full Frame

Mary told me later that she had never made a quilt that did not use blocks. You can see the intensity and the result of her careful precise work. And you can see a glimpse of the work space at Greenville Arms.