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After the Rotary breakfast meeting I had a couple of errands.  It was too early for lunch so I took a 2-mile walk at Lyons Woods.  


Upper right: lobelia is such a beautiful blue!

Upper left:  I picked a handful of blackberries and carried them in a tissue. I had them on my oatmeal this morning.

If you look in the center you'll see a bluejay.

 While I was away my Janome had its own spa week. I picked it up from the shop on Monday and it's back in business.

Wednesday's guild meeting was the annual ice cream social and the 2026 mystery quilt reveal.  A guild member designed  Big Bang.  

Mine is the one with the gray background, middle row/far right. 

 I've been taken by all the red/white quilts that Lynn/Klein Meisje has made recently. Since I'm in between projects I pulled out all the scrap triangles from the box where I toss them and made HSTs (1.5"-3.5").  While I was at it I sewed some blue/yellow HSTs as well.   

The guild charity challenge qilts are due at the ...

Sunrise photo taken at Spring Bluff Forest Preserve, Thursday.

NEWS FLASH!  Easton John DePrez was born at 1:40 this morning.  Mother and baby doing well.  I'm a great-aunt!  

What I made in June

STASH REPORT:  I got a lot of bargains, including a stack of batiks at the ...

I indulged in a little retail therapy and a short walk at Half Day Forest Preserve.   (Water lily, wild morning glory, and bladderwort.)

In 1990 Amelia and I celebrated our June birthdays in Northbrook.  I was staying at my parents' for the ALA conference and Amelia and her mother (my sister) were home for a visit.   Amelia greeted me at the door excitedly:  "Nann!  Grandmother and I baked you a lemon cake!" 

Mid-June wildflowers on my walks this week. Clockwise:  coneflower, purple meadow-rue, beardtongue foxglove, wild indigo, more beardtongue, clover, field bindweed.  Center: the trail at Lyons Woods.

Spangled fritillary and what I think is celestrina echo (I enlarged the snapshot of this little blue butterfly). 

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The rain forecast today will be most welcome. I planted tomatoes, beans, and lettuce earlier this week.  

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 Where has the week gone?    

Zion Woman's Club board met Tuesday afternoon to allocate funds to local agencies.  ($300 to six, with $200 remaining for as-yet-unknown requests.  We are a small-budget operation!)   AAUW met by Zoom Tuesday evening for an excellent program by the director of Reform for Illinois, an organization working for transparency and fairness in state/local election funding.  

I spent an hour at the AT&T store on Wednesday resetting the Yahoo app so I can get email on my phone.  It turned out that I had an old, not-used Yahoo email address that the app ...

Left: dame's rocket has become invasive.  Top:  balsam groundsel or balsam ragwort; fleabane.   Center:  shagbark hickory, chokecherry.  Bottom: strawberry, peppergrass. 

I used FQs from the Victoria show to add some variety for the bright colors.  

Blocks are 12" so 60"x 72".

I sewed all the cut-away triangles and trimmed them to 1-1/2".  (Eight per block times 30 blocks is a lot of HSTs.) 

Tra la! It's May!
The lusty month of May!
That lovely month when ev'ryone goes
Blissfully astray.  

 I did say, "Rabbit, rabbit!" first thing today but I also remember listening to Julie Andrews sing  The Lusty Month of May on our Broadway cast LP* of Camelot.   

(*LP -- yet another archaic term from the 1960's.)

Violets, Virginia bluebells (mertensia), trillium at Lyons Woods on Wednesday morning.

Toler learned about Schultz when a cache of late 1890's photographs was ...

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A house is the template for the chapter highlights display at the P.E.O. state convention.  Any medium is welcome (many chapters do scrapbooking-type collages). I use fabric, of course, and here's how it turned out.  The lettering is printed on adhesive label plastic (8-1/2 x ...

My jacket is Air Light from L.L. Bean. One of the women on the New Zealand trip had three of the pullover models and on her recommendation I got this one.  (This color was on sale. :)) It is just the right weight and warmth. 

Mr. and Mrs. Crane were taking a walk, too. 

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I'm all in for the Villa Rosa Designs Six Quilts in Six Weeks challenge!   

 The audience participated by choosing a 4x4 reproduction of an Impressionist or other late 19th/early 20th c. painting (created by Jim: "it's a prop, not a souvenir").   As Claude walked around the room he gave highlights of the chosen miniatures.

 What a great way to brush (ha!) up on art history.

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Linking up with  Finished or Not Friday

It's been a week of attending to a number of things.  On Monday my sister and I met halfway between our respective homes for a little retail therapy and lunch, and I was finally able to give her gift(s) for her mid-February birthday.  Tuesday I met with the trust attorney to get the ball rolling (belatedly) to retitle Stevens' car in my name (a different process when the vehicle is inherited).  Tuesday evening AAUW met in person with a really informative program about recycling.  (Among ...

Dogwood is reddening up.  Fungus looks like little flying saucers.

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The quilt guild meets by Zoom in January and February.  It was nice to be back in person this Wednesday evening.  One of the guild members, an art teacher (retired; with a ...

They filled a real VW beetle with orchids.  

Catch the 60's decor -- the RCA console TV, the wood panelling and orange shag carpet.

The CBG staff starts planning two years in advance.  All the sets are made in-house.  

The amaryllis will bloom while I'm away so I took it (and some produce) to Mike and Jen, the neighbors who will watch the house.  Not only do they have the house key but they also have the car keys because if the house is burning the cars need to get out of the garage. 

I was determined to finish The West Wing before the trip.  I watched four episodes Wednesday night (got through Matt Santos' election) which left me with five episodes for Thursday.   All that TV time meant sewing time. 

An hour after I took this screenshot the temperature dropped another 2 degrees. 

The storm has been in the forecast all week and it's probably affecting where you are.   We're on the edge of the snow with just 1"-2" predicted for tomorrow.   

The retired library directors are meeting for lunch today but LS and I, who were going to ride together, have decided to stay in our respective homes.   I have enough to keep me busy.

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