Flowers & Quilts: My 2 Favorite Things

 I love the splash of color winter pansies give this season.

These happen to be in the pots by the front door.  I put in a variety 

of colors but on the back deck I put in yellow a favorite of Wilson.  

 One thing to keep them blooming is to pull off the

dead flower heads before they go to seed which I do.

This is one of the first quilt patterns I sewed for Outreach.

Chris [the fearless leader of Outreach] just happened to 

re-sent this pattern out in an e-mail a few weeks ago.  This 

actually came at a time when I was searching for a pattern

to make with this fabric.  Now I did take liberties from the

original set of instructions ... like adding a strip between

the row of blocks. 

 Who will get this is yet to be determined.

The Camilla is blooming!  This is the plant that our neighbors 

{who moved away recently {Nancy & Larry} gave to Wilson

when his sister passed away.  It's place is in the bed next to the

driveway that once had the river birch.  Since this did so well there

 I went to Lowe's and found two small Camilla's that

bloom at Christmas.  We had one in Bozman and it was beautiful.  

...

Today on my list of things to do is ...

plant 200 daffodils in the back beds before the weather

turns cold this weekend ... finish Casey's birthday quilt

and get that in the mail ... clean all the stupid silver bells

which is a real pain in the butt ... and maybe if I'm lucky

get the lighted garland hung on the front porch.