Recent Completed Quilts


These are the latest of my quilting hobby.  All were made with using up my stash of fabric in mind.  Some were given as gifts already and the others will go to someone someday.  In the meantime, I will keep sewing.  :-)  
Blue cross for the church room 



These two are for a couple of brothers 



This pattern is called Little Twister
                         I gave it to my neighbor who recently lost her husband.
The Rainbow Promise Quilt for the church 

Ribbons 


The center of each yellow square is a bird/nature picture

Flying Geese in white with blue 

Simply pink and purple

Garden clean up Fall Time

Fall is the time I clean up the flower beds around the house.  It's been maybe 5 years for some of these to be done.  The above is next to the parking lot.  I don't know what the purple flower are.  

This is the corner of the parking lot.  As you can see, I like pinwheels.  The long leaf plant is a Christmas cactus and the tall one on the right is a large white lily. 

This one is below the kitchen window and so is the next one.  Most iris are here. 


This one is next to the former septic tank, now rain water storage.  Iris and columbine, plus something I don't know are here 

Under a window outside the church room

That is the pump for the rainwater

This is out the front door of the building on the left side; iris, rose and columbine 

The front deck next to the back up space and the steps below


Next to the mailbox and front of the building 

Parking lot side, cleaned up nicely.  The middle tall plant is an Emperor Dahlia and is supposed to bloom in November.  The left side plants are small pink/purple from Mrs. Miura years ago


My sheep family.  Cannot locate any ceramic sheep now--must be out of vogue and some of these need replacing.  The 4 fat ones represent my sons, two smaller ones are the daughters, then the one we never met, and Henry and me.  

This is in front of the front door deck.  Rose, iris, lily and a maple tree, plus a fall flower on the left

Last one has a holly bush, iris, purple flowers and numerous other things.  

Fall Nature Shots



The clouds are just so pretty

One of the flowerbeds with my sheep family 

Frogs like to get close up and personal sometimes

This plum tree dropped all its leaves back in August after a heat wave.  Now in October there are new leaf buds sprouting--very unusual. 


Found this creature on the tomato plant and thought it was dead.  Rather ugly, me thinks.   Looks like something out of a horror flick.  Tenacious thing--hung on to the twig no matter what I did to get it off.