A Couple of Crows

Design - Rabbit ABC

Chart - Miniature Samplers IV

Designer - Homespun Elegance

Fabric - 28 count Wichelt Sandstone

Started - 19 May 2010

Completed - 20 May 2010 

I think the pair of crows I had last year, are going to set up shop gain this year.

Here they are

I'm sure it's the same pair, as one has a gimpy leg.

Kind of a handsome bird, no matter what you think of crows.

Wednesday's Walk

A walk from 10 year ago

By mid-March things have really begun to green up.

There are new buds on many of the trees and shrubs.

Some of the earliest trees and wildflowers are in bloom.

Some of the trees are festooned with moss. 

The Grand Hound's Tongue (Cynoglossum grande) is now in bloom.

While most of the western Trilliums have a flower that sits directly atop the leaves, the flower of the Western Trillium (Trillium Ovatum) has a stem between the flower and leaves. The flower thus nods above the big green leaves.

This is not a wilding, but a plum tree - very pretty nonetheless.

This time of year I love the contrast of the brilliant green leaves and the deep red bark of of the Red Elderberry (Sambucus racemosa).

While most of the Indian Plums or Osoberries (Oemleria cerasiformis) have finished blooming, I found one large plant in the deep shade that was still quite lovely.

The Ash trees that line our Big Field have not leafed out, but the field greens up more and more each day.

With my eyes on the ground I found a few early violets near my sister's garden gate.

The seasonal creeks are burbling along with the rains from this past weekend.

The willows that line the Big Creek have catkins and are a haze of green.

I found the first blossom on a Wild Strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis).

And the Cottonwoods are beginning to leaf out!

It's allergy season already in Oregon! 

I read an article about Robert McFarland's "Landmarks" a book on landscape and regional languages which describe them. Who do you supposed travels here regularly.  A rabbit most likely. I found the perfect word for this photo. The word is smuese - Sussex dialect for 'the hole in the base of a hedgerow made by the repeated passage of a small animal.' A perfect word, and one we should still be using, don't you agree?   

Pretty Bird

Design - "A Flower and a Bunny" (kit)

Designer - Stone and Thread

Fabric - 30 count Scuppernog by WDW

Floss - WDW

Started - 1 April 2011

Completed - 6 April 2011 

Here's a pretty bird

A female Northern Red-Shafted Flicker

See her orange (not red in my book) tail feathers?

She's enjoying a bit of sunshine and suet.

March's Blog Header

March Hares - New Blog Header Revealed

Garden Grumbles and Cross Stitch Fumbles and Birding Bumbles

March 2025 Blog Header

March Hares *

Wow!  There are 35 stitched pieces in this header.  I numbered them in hopes that would make it easier to reference the designers and chart names.  Here we go!

1 Hands to Work, "Patience 1989" (I changed it to "Elizabeth 2006")

2 JBW Designs, "The Bunny Collection"; "Plaid Bunny"

3 "Better Homes & Gardens Cross Stitch & Country Crafts" July/Aug 1987 Joan Toggitt, "Rabbit ABCs"

4 Homespun Elegance, "Among the Berries"; "Rabbit" 

5 Ewe & Eye & Friends, " 

6 The Trilongy, "Happy Bunny Bunny Day"

7 Bent Creek, "Hip Hop"

8 The Cricket Collection, "Family Rabbits"; "Rabbit with Alphabet"

9 The Prairie Schooler, "R is for Rabbit"

10 Fanci That, "Pumpkin Patch Lane - Rabbit"

11 Stone & Thread, "A Flower & a Bunny"

12 Ewe & Eye & Friends, "Brown Bunny"

13 JBW Designs, "The Rabbit Alphabet"

14 Cinnamon Heart, "Rabbit Garden"

15 The Cricket Collection, "Soft Boiled"; "Tiny Rabbit"

16 Ewe & Eye & Friends, "Chocolate Hare" (Black Sheep kit)

17 La-D-Da, "Briar Rabbit"

18 Fanci That, "Carrot Patch"

19 Twisted Threads, "Bunny Gingham"

20 The Sweetheart Tree, "Blue Mountain Bunny"

21 Stone & Thread, "Hoppity"

22 Val's Stuff, "Little Cuties"; "Hippity Hop"

23 Homespun Elegance, "Sampler Bunny"

24 Ewe & Eye & Friends, "Garden Patch Rabbit"

25 Birds of a Feather, "Soft as a Bunny"

26 Brightneedle, "Eastertide Sampler" (rabbit square only)

27 Ewe & Eye & Friends, "Bunny in a Basket" (Black Sheep kit)

28 HandWork Primitives, "The Bunny Notebook Cover"

29 Bent Creek, "Hare Lines"

30 Heart in Hand, "Garden Harvest"; "Rabbits 'Round" 

31 Threads of Gold, "Assissi Bunny Pincushion"

32 Bent Creek, "The Bunnies" (kit)

33 Heart in Hand, "Wool Whimsies - Harriet" (kit)

34 Homespun Elegance, "There is a Garden"

35 Heart in Hand, "Bounding Bunny" (kit)  

(If there are two names after the name of the designer the first name is the name of the chart, the second name is the design name)

 

Sunday's Hummers

What do you see below?

The Anna's have started to gather nesting material!

The females are pretty active at the feeders once again.

And are grabbing tiny bits of the unprocessed cotton.

See?

It's thirsty work!

We're here for you Anna!

Saturday's Critters

Lots of squirrels.

As many as eight at a time.

Look at the paws on this guy!

And this one is a ringer - not a Western Gray Squirrel.

There's a Brush Rabbit that hops out to eat most mornings.

Sunflowers for everyone!