Nashville Stitch N Bitch

green is good

I did it! 700 safety pins. Seven Hundred. sevenhundred. It might as well have been 7 million according to my fingertips and to my index fingernail which felt like someone might have been trying to pry it off in my sleep. That qulit isn't moving a MILLIMETER though. And the quilting has begun baby. Oh yes it has. More on that later when I actually have something done besides a little ditch quilting. So far, it's a mixed weight class wrestling match with the quilt winning at the moment.

The girl and I dyed some eggs today. She's the idea man, so she came up with the dying theme "weird." Now some moms I know (I'm not linking links or anything) pull out the Martha guns on us and dye their eggs with like, crushed black walnut, and beets and onion skins and all that stuff. Maeve and I are Easter purists - we go for PAAS, and some glitter paint. (This is the girl that picked out Fairytopia Barbie for her birthday so couldn't we already guess her tastes?) We did put some oil in the water so that we could get a swirly effect and we double dyed some of them because we are reckless egg-dying party people like that. She's wondering what we do with them next and keeps looking to me to give her an answer. She'll say "Mom, they look like they're dry now!" in this very sing songy excited voice, and then look at me as if I have any idea and of course we both know they were dry hours and hours ago, but neither one of us really know what to do with 16 glitter painted hard boiled eggs.

In the interest of low amounts of craft news other than quilting (and documenting that is about the equivalent of the Black Stockinette Men's Sweater saga) I thought I'd give you some pictures from the trail from my daily walk. I really want to find out the names of some of these wildflowers, so if anyone can give any insight, I'd really appreciate it!

Our house is in this little gap surrounded on almost on all sides by hills. The one building that you can see in that picture is the Catholic church at the end of my street. The view here is from a big ridge in the park across from our neighborhood.

This is a little part of the trail, wider than most of it. I like this part because it goes through a thicket full of berry bushes of different kinds and there are tons and tons of birds. So much great wildlife in the park. I have almost walked right into a deer on more than one occasion because they just don't move out of your way anymore and Jim and I have seen a bobcat run across the road. A flock of wild turkeys run around the golf course like they own the place. We saw a coyote one night a couple of weeks ago standing in the parking lot of the Temple down the road from us.

I know this one! Jack in the Pulpit. Right?

These are the ones I'm not sure about:

That green right there in the last picture is that green that I was talking about. The green I want to internalize and then let transport me to Green Nirvana.

Help educate the unwildflowereducated among us oh ye knowers of wildflowers!

xo

Posted by Angela at April 13, 2006 10:43 PM