Well, I have my fabric pretty well lined up for Judy Laquidara’s Quilt for an Hour project, which starts May 19th.  You can view her blog via the link to Patchworktimes to the right.  I am going with a light yellow and deeper gold for the background fabrics.  I bought these two fabrics a couple of weeks ago at half price, just because I loved them.  Well, and because of the afore-mentioned half price!  (All the colors are off a little in the photo, washed out by the flash.)  My twelve other fabrics I’m pulling from stash (YEA!!!), and will be an assortment of browns, rusts, greens.  The rosy fabric towards the right has to go!!!

I finished June’s quilt, and I have been working on a wedding gift quilt — an Irish Chain in pale and rich turquoises, with some yummy chocolate brown.  Here is a photo of the blocks laid out together, but not sewn together.  And there will be borders yet to come.

Now for the birds.  Nephew Bill can’t understand what all this quilt stuff is doing in a site about the birds, so don’t tell him this is really a quilt site.  These pesky birds just keep sneaking in!  During this migratory time, I’m spending way too much looking out the windowws, but I am occasionally rewarded.  Below is what I think is a Catbird.  He’s not as small as the warblers, and spends his time looking for food on the ground.  We have an especially good view of the birds that would normally be in the tall grass/weeds behind us.  That is, until all the plant material grows back from the controlled burn of a week or two ago.

Today we watched this robin work and work at picking up a dried-up crab apple left over from last year.  He would pick it up by the stem, flip it around, and pick it up again.  He finally did eat it, but I think he had to get the stem off first.

While we were getting ready for dinner, a pair of Cedar Wax Wings decided to visit the neighbor’s crab tree.  They are competing with the robins for these leftovers from last year.  And, as we all know, sometimes leftovers are better the second or third time around!

Sue