The Quilt Show with Alex and Ricky Click to see     Photos of La Veta There’s a constant stream of people walking  back and forth.Some sauntering, some in a hurry, but almost everyone is followed by an overstuffed bag, you end up with a minor rocking gait when your luggage is too heavy….I wonder where…

The Quilt Show with Alex and Ricky Click to see     Photos of La Veta The days have been busy and full of new things and ideas. My head is spinning. Not just with ideas but with the beauty of the environment I found myself in. Never lost for words I find it hard to…

I left the hotel this morning at 7.30. The air was already warm and the atmosphere muggy. I drove the silver beast past fields of corn, through a town called Nashville that doesn’t remotely look like the famous one…past green fields of soy bean crops where the crumbled statues of antique wooden barns have stood…

I’ve been playing with design this evening… illustrating the images I photographed yesterday and putting them into different formats. I like the colors…. tell me what you think?

I don’t often get the opportunity to spend a day on my own just taking in the sights. To my delight, yesterday was one of those days. A visit to  a beautiful botanic garden.,I took 300+ photos of leaves, plants and scenes, then I couldn’t wait to get home and draw them… I have a…

The photo at the end of the post  is one of my favorite photos. I love the delicacy of the helicopter seeds… I’m working on how to put it into a quilt. I plan to make it large, ……how about a 6ft dandelion head. If you click on  it, it  will take you to a…