As nosotros were hitching upward the RV yesterday morning, I noticed the wildflowers outset to bloom adjacent to the RV. There has been quite a flake of pelting inwards the desert recently, as well as it shows.
I tried over again to acquire a amend pic of the desert sunflower. They are on long sparse stems, as well as they are difficult to capture if at that spot is fifty-fifty the slightest flake of wind.
There was pelting inwards the forecast, as well as tempest clouds were gathering equally nosotros were driving out of the park.
Most of our driving twenty-four hours was spent inwards the desert of Arizona. Just at the halt of the twenty-four hours nosotros crossed the Colorado River as well as the California terra firma line.
It was disheartening to come across the inspection station only on the other side of the river. Everyone goes through here. We had an avocado as well as some tomatoes equally good equally a few other items of fresh produce. I was certain our avocado as well as tomatoes would live confiscated, but they only waved us on through. Huh? Not worried well-nigh invasive bugs on this item day, I guess.
Before heading to our overnight stop, nosotros went to the post office. There, I mailed my completed Sketchbook dorsum to the Brooklyn Art Library for inclusion inwards its permanent collection.
At to the lowest degree some of the sketchbooks volition live digitized as well as available online eventually. I yell upward i has to pay extra for that, as well as then I'm non certain mine volition e'er appear online. Because of that, I created an album on my Facebook page as well as it tin live seen there. Even if y'all don't convey a Facebook page, my album is public, as well as I yell upward y'all tin come across all the photos past times clicking on this link. Before finishing it off, I added a comprehend photo:
It's the solar eclipse equally seen from Rickreall, Oregon, lastly summer. My i give-and-take for the eclipse: "Extraordinary."
With that chore completed, nosotros headed to our spot for the night. Blythe is situated only on the due west banking concern of the Colorado River. It is desert all only about amongst the exception of some light-green farm fields. We believe alfalfa is the crop grown here. Just equally nosotros made our lastly turn, nosotros noticed the crop duster out doing its work.
After nosotros were situated, nosotros sat exterior inwards the warm sunshine as well as this boyfriend paid us a visit. It's a vermillion flycatcher. It's our inaugural of all fourth dimension seeing one.
He was far away, as well as then I had my indicate as well as shoot zoomed inwards equally unopen equally I could. There was no fourth dimension for setting upward a tripod, as well as then this adjacent picture is a niggling blurred.
After relaxing for a bit, nosotros took a brusque walk to the river. It's a pretty place, despite beingness a rather barren landscape. Looking east, nosotros saw this:
To the west, nosotros saw this:
Across the way, this lonely duck. His friends were generally upriver from where he was.
We had a dainty telephone conversation amongst our boy Matthew yesterday evening. While nosotros were talking amongst him, I was able to position the finishing touches on the lastly block for the Wine Country quilt.
These blocks were started inwards May of 2016, as well as then it's practiced to convey them finished. I'll live sewing them into a quilt, but non until nosotros acquire home. I've already purchased cloth to destination them off, but I don't convey it amongst me. In my head, I'm all the same considering how to set them, as well as I haven't pulled the pattern together yet.
After that, I was sort of excited to acquire started on a novel project. This i is called Friendship's Garden from Robin Kingsley at Bird Brain Designs. It tin live stitched equally redwork, but I'm using colored floss.
My block background cloth was all cutting to size earlier nosotros left home, but when I set it out on the lightbox to draw it, I realized that it was likewise busy a note on note pattern, as well as I can't come across the pattern good plenty to draw it. It's some other stamped fabric, as well as obviously, I haven't learned my lesson well-nigh those. I'm going to convey to pick out a dissimilar background. I tin role the blocks I've already cutting for something else, but it volition convey to live something other than embroidery. Either way, it's all good. It only agency some other trip to a quilt shop...and soon. I convey i all picked out already. For now, I'll acquire to go tracing out the adjacent block for the Snow Globes quilt. Those stitch upward pretty quickly, as well as then I won't convey to delay my novel projection gratification for real long.
Today we'll caput off to Hemet, California. I convey some things to state well-nigh Hemet, but I'll salve that for some other post. For now, nosotros weary travelers are looking frontwards to staying position for the adjacent calendar month earlier heading dorsum to Oregon on Apr Fool's Day. It seems appropriate, doesn't it?