the day after my birthday

Yesterday was my birthday. I like to get it out of the way at the beginning of the year and be done with it. Carrie and Sylvia took me to the Japanese Garden and we had lunch there. The day was overcast but not cold and the color of the day was perfect for pictures and enjoying. 

Close to the entrance

There are many waterfalls to listen to.

Delicious lunch with cute girls.

Interesting pathways  

Spring is slowly coming

Love these trees

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My SLOW stitching for January

Something I finished

Another something I finished

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Class schedule for February

February 9 10-3

15.00

what can you do with a running stitch?

Part of the Slow Stitch Practice

In this session we will explore all kinds of ways we utilize the common but fantastic running stitch. We  use it in Sashiko and Boro and quilting OR??? come and find out what else we can do with it. When you sign up, I'll send you a supply list.

Lunch included, of course.

Sundays in February  11-4

10 and 24

Mondays

4 and 11

Wednesdays

20

Saturdays

16

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some fun pictures

Sharon

some of us feel compelled to make lots of baskets

Cindy

MaryAnn

Susan

MaryAnn

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Mary Oliver

sept 10, 1935- jan 17,2019

described as far and away this country's best-selling poet

From New and Selected Poems Vol two

Hello, sun in my face.

Hello, you who make the morning

and spread it over the fields 

and into the faces of the tulips

and the nodding morning glories,

and into the windows of, even, the

miserable and the crotchety--

best preacher that ever was,

dear star, that just happens  

to be where you are in the universe

to keep us from ever-darkness,

to ease us with warm touching,

to hold us in the great hands of light--

good morning, good morning, good morning.

Watch, now, how I start the day

in happiness, in kindness.

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A couple of instagram recommendations

https://www.instagram.com/hakujitu_

https://www.instagram.com/loveoflinen

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and lastly... a Haiku

On a withered bough

A crow alone is perching,

Autumn evening now.

Basho

or two

Sitting silently,

Doing nothing,

Spring comes,

And the grass grows by itself.

Osho

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