Nell

I first met Nell in the early 60's.

She was in her 80's and suffering from dementia.

She was a neighbor.

I was a young wife with 2 small children.

She would wander over to my house in her confusion.

I would bring her back home.

3 years ago I found this photograph of Nell at a garage sale.

She was young and beautiful drinking afternoon tea.

Her father had taken this photo.

I made a collage of the photo.

Now when I think of neighbor Nell I see

the young Nell.

I am glad I went to that garage sale to meet

the young Nell.

Retreat at Bruce Lake

A nice fishing lake just 45 minutes from home.

One of the best spots to fish is out from this

beautiful nicely landscaped retreat.

Good fishing and a good view.

Bruce Lake.

Got my Charity chair painted black and

I will work on the 2 cushions this afternoon.

Have most of my section of Tommy's

quilt blocked in and ready to stitch.

Should be able to finish both of them by Saturday.

That will leave  doing a painting of the chair.

Since the fabric has a macaw on it

I am going to paint this bird perched on

back of the chair.

That is next weeks project.

Well back to work.

The sooner I get them done the sooner

I can do something fun.

Wordless Wednesday

Quiet in the pines.

 I love the still peacefulness of being in the pine grove.

Like a cathedral outdoors.

The past 3 days have been super windy

finally it has calmed down.

Sort of like life at times.

Off to a doctors appointment today.

Appointments mess up the schedule.

Looking forward to getting back in the studio.

Wednesday morning will be my time to create.

The patterns formed by the tree branches call out

Quilt Me.

Maybe I will.

Memory Lane

My daughter called this morning for a photo for the

newspaper.

This is us at the age of 18 and 19.

 On May 8th we will celebrate our 50th

wedding anniversary. Time has flow by so fast.

I find that it even goes faster now that we are

approaching old age.

I don't feel or think old.

Just my body is older.

This year we will turn 69 and 70.

That means we have maybe 10 to 15 years left.

We  better get busy on our bucket list.

Today I go to the High school and do a clay class.

We are going to make ceremonial rattles and

on May 19th we will fire them in a pit fire

by the pond.

Something that 18 year old above could only dream

of back then. I am so glad I am finally

getting to create art these past 4 years.

It is NEVER too late.

You are never too old to try something new.

Who knows maybe I will get 25 more years to create.