Sunday Snapshots

Yippeeee!

I've seen geese return, ducks in pairs on the pond, rain, and now this!

It's the welcomed rebirth of the prairie.  

 They can be tough to spot, but once you find one, 

you find more 

and more...

Pasque flowers.  There are clusters all over this sloped pasture.  

The more you look, the more you see...

Each nest of spring blossoms is more beautiful than the last.  xo  

It's really hard to stop enjoying this fuzzy purple happiness.

Have a beautiful weekend!  : )  

Enjoy the heat.  

Bloom where you are planted.

thank you Patti & Byron

Sunday Snapshots

Sigh.

REALLY!?  I mean, REALLY!!!???

April 7th... it's S T I L L snowing.  !  ?

They are calling this 'the winter that won't go away'.  Sheesh!  : )  While shopping for groceries, I couldn't help but pick up a copy of 'Country Living' magazine.  My mother has every issue since the '70s.  They were strewn all over as I was growing up.  Something about this cover made me happy inside and I bought it (I'm such a sucker).

Country Living magazine cover

I stopped by Creative House after that to deliver art and buy some hoops & gadgets for the Hand Embroidery classes I'm doing in the near future.  I spied POSTCARD fabric.  !!  Have you seen this yet?

Postcard fabric panels

It reminded of the colors in the cover.  I bought one panel just for fun.  I plan to embellish it with some hand stitching.  Of course, it's part of a design line so I HAD to get some of this too...

!  : )  wow.  Postage stamps.  Actual sized.  Hundreds.

I am going to have fun with these.  After nearly 50 threadpaintings in 5 months, I am really looking forward to just poking around and embellishing with no intention whatsoever.

THAT inspired me to stitch what would really make me happy.  I don't know about you, but I am craving DIRT and the color GREEN. 

I want to smell it too. 

* * *  I might go buy a bag of potting soil and keep a bowl near my workspace like pot pourri - just to lift the spirits and feel normal again.

stitching out some dirt and life and green

: )  Happy Sunday!

Things I Love Thursdays

Oh how I LOVE when people let me in on fabulous things, such as a flax field in bloom... or the first crocuses of Spring!  I headed out to a cow pasture on a hill near my friend Patti's farm.  YES - I brought my camera.  I love the lichen!

Patti contacted me for this reason - the crocuses are out! : ) I love this next shot sooo much.  )

I love how blue the sky & water was, and how yellow the land...

I love how you have to look for crocuses... sometimes the best of them like to hide.

I love this last shot of the crocus in the sage... it's like a cup of sunshine  : )

What a beautiful afternoon!  Thanks Patti.  Happy Thursday everyone.