Quilts and Plants

A sunny day for a change – one day anyhow – it was nice yesterday walking around the yard looking at the plants.  The Lily of the Valley’s are coming up all over the place.   Such sweet little flowers – I love the scent.

Wild Violets that grow all over the place.

Does anyone recognize this tree and know what it is?  The trees were not here on this land when we moved here 34 years ago.   In fact I never even noticed these trees (we have about 10 of them now growing) until about 5 years ago when they had grown enough to catch my eye.  They do not have fruit of any sort on them – these are just the spring time blossoms (seeds?) that so many trees have.

Here is a close up of the bark – it is such a pretty tree.  Like I say we have a lot of them growing now, some are quite small and then there are 3 of them that have gotten very tall – fast growers for sure whatever they are.  The blossoms will all be falling off soon.  I just wonder what they are?

Work on Granny from Wednesday night, I finished the first row of blocks.  Someone had said I was really moving along on this quilt – actually – not – there are 6 rows of Granny blocks and this is just the finish of row one and the first border and over 35 hours of quilting in it already.  I started it about 6 weeks ago.  I figure I will be working on this one all summer and into fall.  I am linking to A Quilting Readers Garden and Confessions of a Fabric Addict.  And one more – Crazy Mom Quilts.

I rolled it down yesterday morning and worked for an hour on it.

Melanie was over for supper last night and continuing on our series Outlander that we are watching – this is the work she brought with her that I showed last week, she has made a lot of progress on it.  Melanie started a new job last month and is working for the local library and is with the bookmobile – she loves this job and she and another worker travel 3 days a week to various parts of the county – a library on wheels so to speak.  She fills us in on what little towns she has visited in our county, some of them have nothing more than a gas station/grocery store combination so the people are very grateful for the library to come to them.

I got two more Lemoyne Stars done yesterday – I kind of move them around the wall now and then so I don’t have one color next to each other, but there are so many similar colors I’m sure some of them look the same anyhow.  A third of the way done – I have another that is part way put together and that will make 30 out of 90.

I sat on the porch reading yesterday – yes it was warm enough for that!  And so far the bugs are not vicious – I have barely noticed them so far – I’m not fooled though – I know that all of a sudden the vicious little bugs will be attacking me.