Friday's Framed Finish

Design - "Tree Swallow" 

Chart - "The Bird Collection - Part 4"

Designer - Heartstrings Samplery

Fabric - 32 count PTP Wren linen

Fibers - GAST & WDW - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 24 August 2017

Completed - 2 September 2017

Framed - September 2018

This one is truly beautiful!

I have to feature a few Tree Swallow photos to show them off.

Next to hummingbirds, these swallows have the iridescent feather thing down pat! 

Migratory birds are such a gift.

They are small feathered fliers of large distances.

It's amazing we get to see and enjoy them year after year.

Kick Back Weekend

We are EXCITED about the weekend (in a cat-like fashion).

See, we ARE excited about the weekend! 

One Bird

Two bunnies

Three chipmunks (I originally typed chimpunks!)

"It's breakfast time."

"We storm the All You Can Eat Sunflower Seed Bar."

"We have to be first in line or those darned gray squirrels hog everything."

"Squirrels!  It's the hoard of Band-tailed Pigeons that get my goat!" 

It appears that two of our quail couples now have babies.  See the little one in the grass?  Later that same day as my sister drove down to her dahlia garden, she stopped to let the quail cross the driveway about 50 feet from the house.  As they crossed, out of the brush a Bob-Cat attacked.  He literally ran through the quail chicks intent on getting one of the parents.  My sister thinks the attack failed; she said the quail were hysterical as might be expected, so she drove off to let them recover in peace.  

While the quail must be ever vigilant, I hope you are able to enjoy a kick back weekend.

One year ago today Mom and I took a pilgrimage to Canterbury.

Blog Header and and Mystery...

July 2013 Blog Header

Here are the details - 6 vertical rows

Row #1: Heart in Hand, "Liberty"; Heart in Hand, "Star Spangled Summer"

Row #2: Lizzie Kate, "Land That I Love"

Row #3: Bent Creek, "Happy Independence Day"; Heart in Hand, "Olde Glory"

Row #4: Lizzie Kate, "Let Freedom Ring"; Lizzie Kate, "Pop"; Heart in Hand, "Flag Roundabout;, Lizzie Kate, "My Country" 

Row #5 The Trilogy, "Happy Flag Flag Day"; Lizzie Kate, "Long May She Wave"

Row #6: Lizzie Kate, "4th of July"; Lizzie Kate, "Summer ABCs"

And here is a recap from a Thames River walk several days ago.

Lots of street front gardening...

The history of eastern London is apparent by the names of streets and buildings. 

The light in the evening was glorious.

We are up in Carlisle and I'm without a laptop, so no new photos for today.

Okay here are the clues for the mystery adventure:

Tomorrow we begin the day in Carlisle...

We take a 'hop on and off bus' all day and end up in Newcastle...

Any ideas what we might be doing?