The 24-hour interval got away from me yesterday. I did my tedious stitching inwards the morning. The final of the sundresses is this far along, too I await I'll goal it off this morning.
Although I reported sunshine yesterday morning, the clouds moved inwards earlier I was finished amongst my slow-stitching. Checking the forecast, the pelting wasn't predicted to start until the afternoon. It took a bulldozer, but I got my lazy self out for a walk. Below is our neighbor's house. Smitty too Sadie are working tirelessly at evicting him from the propurrty.
Straight downwards our driveway, our human vecino planted daffodils along the component subdivision of the driveway shared amongst our 3 closest neighbors. Many years ago, I recall reading inwards our local newspaper that bulbs for either the white or the yellowish daffodil amongst the orangish middle were becoming a rarity. The article requested folks amongst that detail diverseness percentage bulbs at some collection point. Although I've searched for the article, I can't notice it. (It was long plenty agone to last pre-internet.) So, I can't recall whether it was the white i similar this i below...
...or the yellowish i similar this i below. In either case, our vecino has us covered.
Still on the shared component subdivision of the driveway, I noticed these tiny flowers hanging from i of the trees along the way.
Also, a yoke of Cooper's hawks were circling. They must accept a nest nearby. We teach a lot of hawks for the same ground cats similar it here...there are lots of petty munchies running some inwards our field.
Nearly to the primary road, I caught upwardly amongst our friendly vecino the horse. Thank goodness, I had a handbag of horsey treats inwards my pocket.
He's sharing his pasture amongst a dissimilar mule from the i nosotros encounter ordinarily. This i was smaller, too it wouldn't approach the ground no thing how many cookies I offered up. Nothing doing. Our vecino ofttimes boards large equine animals for friends too family, too thus I suspect that's what's going on here. He's belike mad close beingness left behind amongst strangers.
Okay, thus hither nosotros go, officially on our way. Some of the blooming things I saw yesterday are mutual weeds, too it's ofttimes hard to say whether I'm looking at a bloom or a bloom bud. Just to last sure, I took pictures anyway.
At the hand of the hill, this vecino has some beautiful blooming trees inwards their yard.
Here's some other of the weed shots.
In a long-ago spider web log post, I was able to seat this one, but I can't think what it is.
This is some sort of wild fruit tree.
Here's something novel amongst the ruby flowering currant inwards the background.
In the "every petty thing" category...this fungus. The cap was smaller than a dime.
Oh, too lookie here...this is something I haven't seen yet this year.
I'd reached my turn-around signal yesteryear too thus too took a flick of the valley below.
Testing the novel camera's zoom capabilities, I zoomed inwards on this ruby barn. You tin encounter it inwards the epitome above, close 1/3 of the agency downwards the photograph too close the middle.
You can't encounter this adjacent i inwards the larger photograph because it's exterior the frame. But I zoomed inwards on a barn much further away to encounter how good the photographic television receiver camera could do, too it isn't also bad.
Then, I zoomed way, agency out, far off inwards the distance. When the camera's lens is extended every bit far every bit it tin go, I tin activate the digital zoom to teach fifty-fifty closer. That's what I did inwards the epitome below. Digital zoom isn't every bit adept every bit the zoom provided yesteryear the lens, but this isn't also bad. It's a petty grainy, but encounter for yourself.
So, I'm pretty happy amongst the camera's capabilities, both far away, too close-up.
On my agency dorsum home, I noticed this trillium nearly laid upwardly to bloom. I dearest the trilliums. The are my favorite of our native wildflowers.
So yous tin imagine how excited I was when I constitute this cluster inwards bloom merely a petty agency on.
Here are merely a few to a greater extent than I noticed toward the goal of my walk.
It was already 1:00 p.m. yesteryear the fourth dimension I reached abode again. I was starving for tiffin too also surprisingly tired. I ended upwardly taking a nap inwards the afternoon, but got busy on my novel sewing projection earlier the goal of the day.
My goal was to teach all or most of the cutting done. I've cutting all the "constant" pieces I'll remove for the whole project.
And too thus I got to operate cutting upwardly scraps for the random 2-inch squares. I'm using my smallest scraps for this. Anything that can't last cutting into a 2-inch foursquare is getting thrown inwards the trash. Scraps are taking over my sewing room, too this projection is designed to teach rid of a goodly component subdivision of them. To consummate the get-go row of blocks, I'll remove 180 of these 2-inch pieces. Yesterday I cutting 100 of them.
They genuinely teach pretty fast, too thus I await I'll last able to cutting the remaining lxxx too and thus start sewing earlier the goal of today.
But first...grocery shopping. I nonetheless accept nutrient to teach through the week, but nosotros are out of our favorite Dove sorbet bars. You accept no sentiment what a disaster that is, too thus grocery shopping is a must. Hopefully, I'll accept some completed blocks to present yous tomorrow.