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Friday check in: wildflowers, a finish, and progress from With Strings Attached

Wildflowers at Lyons Woods Forest Preserve on Monday.

Top: Yellow sweet clover, meadow rose, false Solomon's seal. Middle: Virginia waterleaf (also Shawnee salad), ox-eye daisy, dame's rocket. Bottom: Meadow buttercup, false white indigo, common nipplewort (really).

Cow parsnip grows taller than me and has colossal leaves.

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The schedule has been rearranged to accommodate some unexpected in-patient medical tests for my husband. So far things are okay and I hope he'll be home tomorrow.

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In the studio: it's been a while since I made a waffle stamps quilt. I began with 2" strips cut to 8" or ...

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Friday finishes! from With Strings Attached

We revisited Greenbelt and Ray Lake Forest Preserves on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. It was sunny but cool with very little wind. The tree swallows are establishing their nests in the nesting boxes. The flowers are trout lilies and [a yellow flower I have to i.d.]

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In the studio: two finished projects!

Last in, first out -- I pieced Jumbo Waffles last week. I quilted it in a simple grid using the walking foot. I pieced the four left over blocks into the back before they could be consigned to the orphan box.

(Click on the "waffle stamps" label to ...

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Weekly update: out and about, finishes and a flimsy, and more reading from With Strings Attached

On Tuesday Zion Woman's Club members planted pinwheels to recognize Child Abuse Prevention Month. (CAP is a General Federation of Women's Clubs initiative.) I've driven past the corner a couple of times and the pinwheels sparkle as they spin. We took our masks off for the photo and then put 'em on again, though all of us are vaccinated.

Our beach visit on Friday was to the main unit of Illinois Beach State Park. That's one building in three photos -- the long-abandoned bathhouse. This story tells about the innovative architecture.

And this story tells about the ...

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Weekly update: wildflowers, new projects, and reading from With Strings Attached

Spring wildflowers on my walks this week:

(clockwise): skunk cabbage leafed out (the flower is the purply-brown "horn"), violets, swamp buttercup, white trout lily (aka dogtooth violet -- "trout" because the leaves are mottled brown/green like a trout); bloodroot.

Saturday morning: six of us from Illinois Beach Sunrise Rotary joined other District 6440 Rotarians at a warehouse in Northbrook. We sorted the shoes our clubs purchased through Operation Warm -- new sneakers for kids in our communities. IBSR's share was 92 pairs that will be distributed through two local agencies.

Operation Warm also provides new winter coats for kids. Our ...

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