Everday Beauty #4

This is the football field which I can see while washing dishes at my kitchen sink. Each evening the sun sets behind the hill and creates brilliant pinks, oranges and blues. Hall creek runs down into Lake Roosevelt on the north side of the field. The fog rolls up and out of the creek creating these low laying clouds.

Eight Months

Note to self... be sure to check daughters pockets after nature walks. This will help avoid pine cones and their pieces strewn throughout the wash.

Everyday Beauty #3

I came across this paper from my daughters stack of school work. It was a list of vocabulary words in which she choose five words to use in sentences of her own. I found it charming along with this picture of her hands and a bird egg.

In my neighborhood in a tree a baby bird hatched out of an egg. We went by the swamp and saw the baby bird. It was about to fall out of its nest! The bird was about to hit the ground when I rescued the bird! Later we got hot so we went in the sprinkler. It was delightful! ~Zelda

Lichen

Everyday Beauty challenge #2. I am so glad I decided to take on the challenge to post one picture per week. I would have missed out on a enjoyable walk I took with my daughters to find this lichen in the woods. They kept picking up things and saying, "Take a picture of this... Take a picture of this!"

Everyday Beauty #1

I have decided to join the "Everyday Beauty" photo challenge this year. Each week will feature a photo of something beautiful from the place where I live.

A little bit of this...

Cards with hearts on them. Who doesn't love a good homemade card? This is just a little peek at some of the cards that may be in the mail to you right now!

Flock of Valentines

This is what my girls are making for their friends on valentines day. I think they are super cute! Go take a look and tell me what you think!
Flock of Valentines - National Wildlife Federation

Dog in the Fog

When I walk to the post office I am often joined by the neighborhood dogs. It reminds me of an episode of Fetch with Ruff Ruffman when he send Harsha to New Mexico to learn about Pow Wows. She gets to the reservation and sees lots of dogs running around. Watch at minute 7:43. Sunday I took a walk and ended up with five dogs joining me but my record is eight. I look like the pied piper of dogs whenever I go anywhere.

Bingo

This is what our little community is doing to raise money for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Our community is very remote without many resources, yet the people here do lots of good things when a need arises. The common bond that unites us as human beings seems to grow when we share what we have. To donate visit the Red Cross.

Rail Fence

Quilt #2 is finished! I used the ladder stitch on the binding.
I found this great tutorial....

The owl fabric is from the pow-wow. What do you think? I am not too happy with the color scheme. I wish I had incorporated some of the yellow fabric in the fence part of the quilt. I guess I will live and learn.