Wednesday's Walk

 Five Years Ago

The First Walk of September

Wow!  Just like that it's September!

Blue Elderberry

Wild Honeysuckle

Wild Dogwood - can you see the prickly fruit?

Oak Gall

Pearly Everlasting

Ocean Spray

Cascara

Blackberries

Teasel 

Bracken Fern

Thistle

Snowberries

Hope you enjoyed today's walk.

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Garden Grumbles & Cross Stitch Fumbles September 2025 Blog Header

The designers, charts, and design names are listed below in horizontal rows.

Shepherd's Bush design "The Promise" is so long that it is scanned in 2 pieces. 

Row #1: Sisters & Best Friends, "Two by Two"; Shepherd's Bush, "The Promise" Part 1; Designs by Charlotte, "Folk Art Favorites" - "Noah's Ark"; The Cricket Collection, "A Well-Dressed Man" - "Noah's Mitten"; Sally Ann Cox, "Brother Noah Built the Ark" - Leisure Arts "Contest Collection". The Cricket Collection, "Noah's Umbrella Clause" (freebie). 

Row #2: Kandace Thomas, "Noah's Sampler" - Leisure Arts "A Sampling of Tradition"; Better Homes and Garden, "Prize Winning Mini Samplers" - "Noah's Colonial Ark".

Row #3: The Cricket Collection, "Noah's Ark";  Barrick Sampler, "A Weeping and a Blessing"; The Artist's Collection, "Heartstrings - Noah and Company - The Ark"; Shepherd's Bush, "The Promise" - Part 2

Row #4: Jane Chandler, "And Noah Opened the Window" - Leisure Arts "Noah and Friends".

Design - "Quilter's Ark" 

Chart - "A Little More Seasoning" #111

Designer - The Cricket Collection

Fabric - 25 count Driftwood Dublin linen 

Fibers - DMC

Started - 20 August 1995

Completed - 4 September 1995

Framed - August 2011 

I left this one out of the collage for some reason! 

 

Little Guys

Design - "Square Dance - September"

Designer - Heart in Hand

Fabric - 32 count Vintage Country Mocha

Fibers - WDW - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 7 September 2020

Completed - 15 September 2020

Little Guys

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

Goldfinches eating chicory seeds

Lots of gleaning going on this time of year. 

Sunday's Hummers

Lots of Anna's 

Happy Sunday!

Lunar Eclipse

 We weren't in line for a total eclipse Thursday night, but we did get a partial eclipse.

I thought it was pretty cool.

Black-headed Grosbeaks

Design - "Baubles - August"

Designer - Sam Sarah Design Studio

Fabric -28 count Zweigart Newport natural / cream linen 

Fibers - GAST & WDW - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 2 September 2016

Completed -5 September 2016 

All the adult male Black-headed Grosbeaks appear to have left the area.

Now all I'm seeing, and not very many at that, are females / immature birds.

Like this one.

And this one.

Still doing the grosbeak thing and cracking black oil sunflower shells with their strong beaks.