The water lilys float on the surface of the lake and the stems fade into the darkness and become distorted by the ripples in the water. The water shimmers in the sun and the reeds stand like horizontal punctuations in the water, their reflections twisting into the most interesting shapes. The loons are the icons…

Wow, what a day it was yesterday…. Acceptance of the 3 quilts in Houston. Son Jamie and the team nominated for an Emmy, and I may be able to catch up with him in LA. Confirmation of my new home base Apt in Hot Springs Arkansas… I'll be down there for a couple of weeks…

You can tell I'm in Minnesota And today we went to the county fair.   They were judging the rabbits Families looked on anxiously, waiting for the results.   We met a goat with little ears….!!! Met wonderful folk Just a wonderful day…..

The Group quilt is juried into Houston and so is the Rhino and the Bayeux….. whoopeee……

Nola sent this yesterday… Thomas Merton "The imagination should be allowed a certain amount of time to browse around"

Several times in my life rather mysterious things have occurred… I've written about one such situation in my book. However, today going through Mum's studio… she handed me a book of her drawings… They are so uncannily like mine… and yet I have never seen them before….. is it inherited….? There are 1000's of ways…

We had a busy day yesterday, picked Babies breath from the side of the road, set up for the luncheon in Akeley in the morning, finished a presentation at noon, traveled for 3 hours with a few quilt shop stop offs… and another visit to my favorite group in Little Falls yesterday and I arrived…

When I was a child, my bed was placed right under the window in my bedroom. 3 feet from the window was a grey wood plank fence,  however, the sun always hit the window and my bed for a short time in the morning. When I laid in my bed and looked up I could…

Fabric in the shop the other day….. don't you loe the colors…?