Sunday 3 April 2011

Beautiful day













Friday's I'm off at noon. This week I took my camera with me. We had an extremely warm day. It was just gorgeous, 70 degrees. I decided to stop my Cassandra's office and the clouds were so neat so I took a couple pictures.



I don't usually have my camera with me when I see clouds like this so I had fun. Of course I only kept a couple.




We have such large flocks of Canadian Geese in our area and I've always wanted to take pictures. So today I decided it was the day. I ended up driving to a couple different spots and nothing. Then I decide to head off towards Ethan's school to sit and read until time for him to come out but as I was driving the sky to the right of me just got black with them. Of course there was no place to park so I had to drive past, turn around and come back. I took several pictures and if you click on the picture to make it larger you will be able to see the geese just






hovering over the wet lands..we have a large area set aside for that. After a while they just got up and flew off again.I just sat there watching then hover then settle.




I decided to drive up a little further and found a place to park at the bottom of walking path that goes through the wet lands. This was the view I had..just gorgeous.




I'm sitting there and all of a sudden I can hear them but I can't see them anywhere. Then out of no where they start showing up...but in long lines. It was tough to get pictures but I was able to get a few that really turned out pretty nice.



I even got one where I was looking straight ahead then folllowed them over head and snapped the picture.


I was so tickled that I got some good shots on my first time out shooting pictures.







Again if you click on the pictures you can see the geese a lot better. I'm hoping I can get out and get a few pictures this summer instead of sitting on my duff every weekend. Not that I'm quitting quilting but in between projects I need to be a little more active.





Hope you all enjoy my new hobby...

Happy Easter

Well another month has passed and so quickly. Can you believe it's Spring and soon Easter will be upon us. It's time to put up another wall hanging. This is my second applique made in 1994 and I think so far one of my favorites. It's my Bunny Angel. The lady I took this class from won so many awards from Keepsake quilting she stopped competeing. She was fantastic. I really love to applique but sometimes it takes a little to long from start to finish. Most of the time I have a small project that I can work on inbetween my machine projects. I have this one hanging up behind my desk at work.. Mid month I'll take it down and put up my Log Cabin Bunny. I really like that I have some place at work that I can make new ones and change them regularly. It's nice to show off my handy work.