Category Archives: Seasons

Scrap Quilting

Not really. Scrap life-ing. Bits and pieces out of my image library. Not showing off my technique, just cool little moments. Grandson Young moms doing lunch in the park.  They let me stay. Old dog.  Losing his hearing.  But never … Continue reading

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~in just spring

There was a time in my life when I believed in magic. (If you read this out loud, you must say the word – say “magic”—very softly, as though you are breathing it, and feeling the touch softly on your … Continue reading

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Spring color

——=0=——     The tiny harbinger flowers, so delicate – but surprisingly decorated.  Snowdrops are like this too, but white with a delicate stroke of green.  They’d be gaudy if they were any larger, eh?  Years ago – no.  Decades ago, … Continue reading

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Easter

First of all, may I tell you that after all that snow yesterday, the sun came out and melted it all?  We went to bed looking forward to more spring, which we thought would come bounding back today.  Ummm.  At … Continue reading

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Oh, what a diff a day can make –

First: here’s what the Rachel bunny brought us for Easter –   Yesterday: TODAY: Something about April being the cruelest month?

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first spring –

I always wait till there’s not enough light to shoot decently by, and then neither one of these wiggly people will hold still enough.  But you really do have to shoot forsythia in spring – it’s heart-healthy.  Traditionally, I shoot … Continue reading

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Women’s work—

First, I have two things to say: 1) I do not like saying goodbye.  Goodbye, Gin.  Goodbye, Max.  I can stand it today, but not yesterday. 2) Here’s a neat little technique: find something at Sam’s club that you know … Continue reading

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The new addition –

A few minutes ago, G announced cheerfully that today, M had been gone eight months!  Only he was wrong.  He had it wrong.  Nobody around here is allowed to round up anything relative to time passing—time is only what it actually … Continue reading

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I don’t know-can you stand it?

Okay, I have to admit (like I could HIDE it), I’m fascinated with all this frost.  I love it.  I love the edges of the melting mounts of snow, like crystal lace.  I keep trying to catch it, somehow, the … Continue reading

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Little Cat Feet –

Fog. We live in a high mountain valley.  Every January (Dad, don’t read this), a ridge of high pressure will settle over us in what they call an “inversion.”  I’m not sure what’s inverted, exactly.  But it’s like we’re a … Continue reading

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