The Days Just Fly By!

Yes, they do, but they sure can be fun!  After a very cool, wet start, most days have been a perfect summer this year: low 50s at night and low to mid 80s in the day.  I haven't done much sewing or quilting, I must confess.  My garden at my "new" house is coming along really, really well.  I'm loving the colors and textures that are starting to emerge.  Here's the latest finished part.  The stone walkway was the last part to go in.  This following picture is what this part of the yard looked like almost exactly a year ago when I first started the rework of the back yard and the last picture is what it looked like when I bought the house.  Look out Home and Garden magazine!

Here's another before and after view standing with the vegetable garden to my back.  Still need to lay more gravel on this pathway but the plants are looking pretty happy.

Back to Gardening, Back to Nature .... Back to Blogging

"SWEET POTATO PIE"

"HAPPY HARVEST"

The weather is warming up a little bit.  At least I feel that way since I seem to be wearing one less layer these days.  I have my raised bed boxes in place and filled with a layer of half decomposed leaves from from last Fall.  The next big step is to have several yards of garden mix dumped in my driveway to fill those boxes.  I'm not looking forward to the wheel barrel loads nearly as much as I'm looking forward to the summer harvest.

Anyway, I had so much fun making "Fresh Vegetables" last year, that I decided to make three individual pieces with the similar theme.  "Fresh Vegetables" has sold so I decided to replace them with these larger individual scenes.  I loved picking out all the fun fabrics.  Mixing checks, plaids, dots, and whatever other texture is in my famous stash gives me that creative rush.  Of course, it leaves my fabric shelves in a huge mess because no pile gets unturned.  Fortunately, there are plenty of rainy days in Oregon to be spent reorganizing.

These three pieces can be seen in a show titled "Back to Nature" at the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral at 147 NW 19th (at Everett), in Portland, Oregon.  The show will be open for viewing until April 27, 2011 and is a show put together by the members of High Fiber Diet art quilt group.

Enjoy the colors of these and enjoy the promise of spring weather and getting outside ... SOON!

"BLOOMIN' ONION"