One Flower Wednesdays

Started sewing my hexies together for the new top. I found a new blue but now looking at the pictures it should have been in the first round, looks lighter to me. Oh well, will see how it looks next to the darker blues I have.

The snow is finally melting, and there are huge puddles around. Luckily the ones in the yard are sinking into the ground overnight.

Granddaughter Violet came and stayed the night. She had a hard time keeping up to Mac.

You can see how much the snow has melted in 4 days.

 Went to the river Sunday to see if the Great Blue Herons are back. Didn't see any, they must have moved their rookery.

Here a couple of pictures of the Herons taken April 11, 2009. 

I wonder what they think of the Great Horned Owl? Not a great picture but you can see the top if it's head.

A pair of Geese also took the advantage of a free nest. 

 

Are you coming?

Almost a Grandmother's Flower Garden

Well, here is the start of my new top. Trying to make it in the watercolor landscape style. I don't know if I can make it look like it does in my imagination but I'll give it a try. Not quite a Grandmother's flower garden, but there will be hexie flowers in there further down.

I might give my sun longer rays. It sure is hard to place the hexagons without too much planning while making it random, and flowing from light to dark.

Cast Iron Bed

Ready for Battle

I always use a mask when working with wood and doing any sanding now. I made some cedar birdhouses a while ago and it really bothered my lungs, so I bought this stylish mask.

If you noticed the cross stitched picture above, I entered it in the 1994 Calgary Stampede's Creative Living & Handicrafts and won 3th place.  I'll try and find the piece I won 1st with for the next post.
We bought an antique cast iron bed 3 or 4 years ago at a garage sale and used it as it was. This spring we decided to redo our guest bedroom after our son moved out. Painted the walls, re tilled the floor and refinished the old bed.

Foot Board Before

Head Board After Sanding

Finished Bed

 I've had this quilt top done for a couple of years with the plan of using it in this room. Now I will have to get busy and finish it. The pattern is Scrappy Floating Stars.

The oak dresser was my Grandmother's that my Mother refinished for me as a surprise 35 years ago.

The room still needs pictures and curtains, trying to decide if the pictures should be old family ones.

Bridge Arm Lamp

I found this neat old lamp at another garage sale a couple of years ago that I thought would go in my new room. I have to decide what kind of lamp shade to put on it, or maybe I will make one of those fancy beaded ones if I can find the right frame.

Curtain Rods

I just remembered I had these curtain rods. I bought them at the Strathmore Hotel's garage sale years and years ago. I kick myself now, because everything we bought that day was priced at $2.00 an item or box. Of course you think I don't really need it, but what the heck for $2.00 I'll buy it.

Another decision, which pair should I use?

What started out to be a post about the bed turned into so much more.

Spring is on it's Way

Saw the first fly of the season while out walking in the pasture. Don't know what it will eat, well maybe I do, there are still horses here.

It looks kind of hairy so it should stay warm

All Gopher trails lead home.

Hard running in this snow, keep falling through.

One Flower Wednesdays

Only green petals this week for the project that is formulating in my mind. I hope it comes together the way I see it.

One of these days the snow will melt away and we can it by the fire outside, and have a picnic on the table.

Bald Eagles

 The Magpies aren't happy to have  this Bald Eagle stealing their food.

 These Bald Eagles have been around for a couple of weeks. I realized they were eating the gophers the neighbour has been shooting lately. The nest is an old hawk one, they look like they are checking it out. Bald Eagles have never nested on our property, they usually like to be around water, maybe this will be our lucky year.

Hoar Frost

With all the fog we've been having lately, it has made for some interesting Hoar Frost.
I don't think I have ever seen it grow so long.

 More icicles than usual too.

I guess you could call this a blanket of snow falling off the roof of my greenhouse.

Yellow

Being a snowy morning with no sunshine these yellows just popped out and caught my attention today.

Icicles

Yesterday I tried to photograph the drips coming off the many icicles hanging on my deck. I was partially successful. Harder to do than I thought.

 

Interesting bubbles inside this icicle

 

Picture in a picture

Yesterdays icicles in the snow this morning.

One Flower Wednesdays

I've been busy making single blue hexagons to add to my pinks and purples for a project I have in mind. Now the plan is finding and cutting up blues that will blend together. Next week greens.

I did get a couple of hexie flowers finished.

Still Snowing

Icicles Bent by Wind

I am always fascinated by how icicles are formed.

 

Brown & White

I have been finding joy in the small bits of colour in my yard this year. We seem to have more snow and it keeps coming. Usually Chinooks come and melt it away, but not this year.

Mac and Horses

Mac running back after a walk, I noticed the horse with it's foot up after I took this picture. 

Snow Drift

The snow drift is as high as the fence. Hope it melts enough to let me into the greenhouse one of these days. Still too cold to plant anyway.

Black & White

Mac is so black his eyes so dark they don't even show up.

Colours

I love the way the colours show up in this photo. There is a big wash tub I use for a planter under all that snow.