Quilt to Celebrate Summer

I keep trying to find things to warm up the atmosphere - After all, it was only 4 degrees below zero this morning! This is a small wall hanging made by 7 members of our Preston Piecers Quilt Guild. There are four different quilts being made by guild members - they will be a gift when finished. Be sure to enlarge this - although it hasn't been blocked, and doesn't look "perfect" yet, It will look better when quilted and blocked. Just needed something to put on the blog - there has been quite a hiatus the last week or so.

Flowers for Post Valentine's Day

Bleeding hearts from last spring - (See, there was really something else besides snow in the front yard.) These seem appropriate for all of those who didn't find their valentine yesterday.) Or should it say, "My heart bleeds for you"?, or something equally as sentimental?

Yellow is my favorite color, so we needed some yellow roses in the mix.

And pink, offset by a little blue. Yesterday's paper had an article about the meaning of the colors of flowers given for Valentine's Day. The conclusion of the author is that colors can mean what the giver likes - no one really agrees. However, red is supposed to be the color that means "I love you."

I haven't been very inspired this last week. The weather continues cold - 4 degrees above zero this morning. Some days we actually get some sunshine and the snow either compacts or melts a little around the edges. Winter begins to wear. This also is the day that Dorothy has her thyroid removed - We are wishing her the best recovery time. She meets life with a determination to see things through, and looks on the bright side of things.

"Where the Skies Are Not Cloudy All Day"

When yesterday dawned so beautiful and clear with the first glimpse of blue sky we've had in ages, it seemed like a good omen. The blizzards of this weekend were over for a time. We were thankful, because it was the day of the funeral for our neighbor and friend, Don, and we were dreading the difficulties for the family with all the bad weather.

As you can see, the old picnic bench on the patio looks like a sarcophagus.

Ron posing for me as he rests from digging out the dog trail to Hampton's.

As you can see, the snow does want to fill in the path.

One of our neighbors complained that you can go 50 miles in any direction and run out of the snow. We really know that we are blessed, because it's that melting snow that sustains this little farming community when summer comes, but when the days continue gray and stormy, or gray and foggy, it's a little hard to find the light. As Mark Twain said, "Everybody wants to have something done about the weather, but no one does anything." (Or something like that.) We got above freezing yesterday - remarkable!