Hot Hot and Hotter.

It feels more like August than June.

A perfect excuse to stay in the studio

and let the weeds grow in the heat.

We are going to fulfill something on our bucket list.

We rented a house on a lake for a month next year.

The kids and their kids can visit us.

Someone to take Grandpa fishing.

Something to look forward to next year.

I will take my sewing machine, camera and watercolors.

Sew, Paint and take lots of photos for

future art quilts.

I love the north wooods  having spent my

childhood going to this lake for 2 weeks

every summer. Taking our family there until I was 45.

Will be nice to get acquainted with the place again.

Yesterday 6 crows came and cleaned the

corn and sunflower seeds off of the driveway.

They also cleaned out most of a row of sweet

corn in the garden that my husband planted.

new procedure plant and cover with chicken wire.

The deer mowed off half of the tomatoes.

My husband put a fence around the garden yesterday.

The joys of the country.

A early start to the day at Cedar Ridge

Started at 4 this morning cleaning the studio

and setting up my displays for the Open House.

Saturday will be here before I know it.

I love cardinals they are so bright in the landscape.

I love all my birds.

They eat better than we do at times.

The woodpeckers, blue jays,titmouse's and chickadees

have been very hungry.

I switched to solid block bird feed.

They perch on it and work the seeds loose.

Fun to watch.

Well I had better get back to the studio to finish up.

I plan to be finished by noon today.

Than I can spend tome making

some more landscape quilts.



Good Morning Saturday

                       Love old buildings. Rusty things, old cars
                       and anything old that would include me.
                       Age is a good thing. Another beautiful day
                       at Cedar Ridge. Spending the morning
                       cleaning out all the flower beds of the
                       old dead  flower heads. The birds quit eating
                       them and have moved back to the feeders
                       so time to clean up with the help of my
                       grand daughter Jenna.  We will share the
                       last watermelon for a snack break.
                      

Can Spring be far behind.

The Robins must have heard me complain yesterday.

They showed up to eat the berries off of the cedar tree.

The bluebirds are back.

The skunks are out of hibernation.

Soon it will be spring.

Life at the bird feeder

 Oh good I have the feeder all to myself.

     Where did they come from. Must have come in behind my back.

        My goodness they are more of them.

Watch out here I come.

Last one in the pool. Watch out.

Finished 10 small painting/collage's

 I ended up going a different direction with the 8x10 's.
Tell me what you think. I started  to collage one of my bird photos and ended doing  mark making with a white pen.

I am thinking of selling them separately or I could combine them in one grouping to use in my show. After all there are birds in my woods when I go walking.

I will either go back to the river scene with the red gesso background or go into the sewing room and do some landscape quilts. One of my favorite things to do.

 

This is my favorite one. I am thinking of asking $45 including shipping in the US.

Whats new at Cedar Ridge.

               Thought you might enjoy last years Christmas card. I made 10 different watercolors.

      The female Cardinal is back at the bird feeder my husband made  from a plastic saucer.
 
           The Junco, female Cardinal and the Downy Woodpecker enjoying the sunshine today,

            Another of my presents to me. two small art quilt collages from Virginia Spiegel.

           You would think I had enough of Christmas but my daughter
           and I went in search of next years Christmas presents at 75%  off.
           When you do 30 stockings you can never start too early.

Cold snow and winter

I woke up today to 4 degrees but bright and sunny

 Quiet fields with blue skies.

The birds have emptied the feeder. my husband made a feeder of a plastic plant saucer and mounted it on a pole. This way they cannot shove all the seed out on the ground. Sunday on that windy day the sparrows crouched down in the saucer to feed.

Today  I will start making the 5 tote bags I cut out yesterday. I am making them of wool tweeds and herringbone suiting. I go to the Salvation Army and buy old suit coats, wash and dry them. I find the best heavy wools that way.

I was in the basement working yesterday afternoon and looked up to see the deer looking back at me through the window while they munched the dead flower heads.They are doing my spring clean up for me.

While I had better start on my Christmas gifts.