It was a overnice solar daytime to walk the Fanno Creek Trail alongside Sue yesterday. Also, it was adept to larn some practise earlier our anniversary celebration dinner final night. The heaven was overcast for our walk, in addition to it was a trivial muggy. Still, it was hence pretty. Tualatin Hills Parks & Recreation was charged some years agone alongside restoring the wetlands surrounding Fanno Creek, in addition to they've done a beautiful job. Having non seen it for several months, it was obvious their difficult operate is paying off. The trail was lush in addition to green, in addition to in that location were beautiful wildflowers blooming everywhere.
Sue, alongside her abrupt eyes, spotted this guy crossing our path. He was almost ii inches long in addition to moving fast. The paradigm doesn't do his coloring justice. He was practically iridescent. It wouldn't surprise me at all if he glowed inwards the dark.
This adjacent blossom was almost the size of a silvery dollar. It also had an interesting seed pod, which wasn't captured inwards my image. I had a difficult fourth dimension getting this i inwards focus.
Also, nosotros saw several cats along the way. We saw this i some distance off at the start of our walk. Try every bit I might, I couldn't larn him to opened upwardly his eyes, although he seemed to follow us every bit nosotros went. Possibly, he's using the if-I-can't-see-you-you-don't-exist approach to moving us along from his domain. Our walk is almost 5 miles, which takes us a trivial over an hour. When nosotros came dorsum this way, he was yet sitting inwards the same place, yet alongside eyes closed.
At the extreme halt of our in-and-out path, nosotros met this guy. He was hence friendly, nosotros truly had to walk away earlier I could larn an in-focus picture. He rubbed inwards in addition to out of our legs, in addition to and hence took a overnice dust bathroom in that location on the sidewalk. This was a pocket-size cat, I suspect a teenager.
Oh yes...and this one.
Back at the Three Cats Ranch, this i was stalking some prey inwards the lavander bush. Could move a mouse...could move a bumblebee.
After icing my genu in addition to eating some lunch, I forced myself dorsum into the quilting room. Thanks to all of yous who offered encouragement inwards yesterday's post. It helped, in addition to I felt amend when I walked away from it yesterday. I quilted some other department of the crossbeam inwards the gazebo. I varied the direction of my stitching a little, although I could non explicate this if I tried. It came out a trivial better, I think.
Then it was only the same motifs i time to a greater extent than in addition to again. I'm staying consistent for the repetitive portions of the quilt. Also, I intend quilting the same motifs i time to a greater extent than in addition to i time to a greater extent than is business office of what discourages me almost this. I've been working on it for such a long time, in addition to it's start to bore me.
Here's how yesterday's efforts hold back from the back. Look at the middle in addition to toward the southwest a little, in addition to yous tin run across the quilted butterfly.
But I'm feeling amend almost this. Check it out.
The portions below the ruby-red describe are finished. The portions inwards a higher house the ruby-red describe yet involve quilting. I know only what I'm going to do inwards these final sections, in addition to that's one-half the battle. That said, the halt is inwards sight.
We celebrated our anniversary at the Portland City Grill. It's located inwards the States Bank Tower inwards downtown Portland, in addition to it has the best sentiment of the city. We waited a trivial longer for a tabular array adjacent to the window. When nosotros were seated, our tabular array was decorated alongside "Happy Anniversary" confetti.
Here is the sentiment from our table. Below, yous tin run across the Willamette River in addition to the Burnside Bridge.
Looking to the right, yous tin run across the shadow shape yesteryear our building. To the correct is the Morrison Bridge in addition to only to the correct of that, the Hawthorne Bridge.
Looking further downward the river, I took this moving painting in addition to marked where we've spent our quaternary of July celebrations for the final 12 years, or so. There's a ruby-red construction in that location that helped me position the spot. Beyond the arrow, yous tin run across the Marquam Bridge, which is where Interstate 5 crosses the river.
It's a beautiful city, in addition to we're yet happy to alive hither fifty-fifty later on having driven roughly the perimeter of the U.S. this yesteryear year.
Last night's dinner finished upwardly alongside this trivial dessert compliments of the restaurant. It was a mocha chocolate mousse. Those trivial chocolate "beads" are chocolate covered rice crispies. Pretty darned good.
And that was the halt of a truly adept day.
Today I involve to create total the plane feeders in addition to H2O the blossom pots. There are a pair of housekeeping chores, in addition to and hence I'll pass some fourth dimension on the quilting. Depending on how I experience almost it, I mightiness pass all my sewing fourth dimension there, or I mightiness caput into the sewing room in addition to operate on something else. Time volition tell.