It's been a month since my last post!  no idea how that much time has passed.  too much focus on yucky stuff like taxes. 

have read all of the Lucy Stone series by Leslie Meier. 

http://www.amazon.com/Leslie-Meier/e/B000APW6ES/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

currently reading Agony of the Leaves by Laura Childs, another series I follow. 

Goldie is doing his Spring Shed -- why? I wonder -- he's an indoor cat; sitting at the screen door a few hours during a warm day is his closest to experiencing outdoors.

in the garden the white lilac is in bloom.

Memories Teased

I'm reading Victoria Houston's series set in Loon Lake, Wisconsin.

http://www.victoriahouston.com

A very enjoyable cozy (although it has neither quilts nor cats). it had me pleasantly drifting toward sleep when .....wham!  one simple word sparked so many warm memories of a grandmother with a German heritage.

dumhof!

It's German for "stupid" -- never used to describe another, but rather in the "I am/was a dumhof" when I did that.

oh, compensating for the lack of cats & quilts, one of the main characters is a female Chief of Police.

Current Cozy Setting

Shropshire Union Canal, England -- Water Like a Stone by Deborah Crombie.  I'm gorging on all the Kincaid & Gemma not-yet-reads. 

(photo source info lost)
I've seen these -- part of the canal system, on a London tour ages ago.

Has the Roar Stopped?

Can we hope that Spring has come in -- and meld quietly into Summer without so much as a soft sigh?

Here are some Blue Tulips with their memories of Holland.  I think the forsythia will bloom soon -- those in back are shaded and tend to be later.  It's time to shed winter's cocoon.

Winter, Winter go away!

Another dreary day with possible sleet and snow.  I'm going to follow Rea's example [Confessions of a Pioneer Woman] and chose " to preserve my (our) resources" by curling up with a good book - another of the Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James series by Deborah Crombie. A piece of wonderfully dedicant chocolate, from Wallmart of all places, may be just extra luxury such an afternoon demands.  

With fingers crossed

that the predicted storm fizzles long before reaching here, I'm enjoying a visit to Glastonbury Abbey in A Finer End.



and the wonder of internet, as I read, a website broadcasts some of the chants associated with the pre-reformation abbey.

Fabric and the start of Lent

Were I to say that quilters love fabric, you'd be right to reply "duh!"
Which means you would enjoy, as I have, Corey Amaro's photos of the carnival in Venice on her blog titled Tongue In Cheek.  Google & take a look--imagine working with those fabrics!  certainly not "keep warm" New England bed quilt fabric.