Cause it makes me happy

I have posted another picture of this place taken at another time.  This was taken just the other day...it is nestled there with woods surrounding it.  Thus it is a challenge to get a decent photo.  This one has been fiddled with to bring out some of the color.  I would dearly love to stop and take loads of photos, but it is not a good place to pause for long.

There are all kinds of hostas all over creation...there are skulls hanging different place, and while I don't usually find that attractive, it sort of suits this place.  I told Roger an artist lives there.  Someone really has a good  eye....

I swear I think if we ever passed and there was someone out, I would want to stop and ask could I park in their drive and take pics.  I can never look all I want to look.

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I have been sitting looking back through my pictures...I have literally spent hours this night alone.  Looking at the pictures of Tootie from when she was a baby on....remembering all the good times we have had with her here.  Just kind of looking back over our life. Thinking about all the good times we have had, thinking it is going to be hard when Lo goes to school full time and cannot come at the drop of a hat if we get too lonesome for her. 

Looking and remembering all the drives Roger and I have taken...just so many memories in all the photos.  All these memories combined with things happening now brought this song to mind and I just have to share it.

 I know it is not the most popular.  Probably a lot of people have never heard of it, but is is one of my all time favorite songs and definitely my favorite of hers....so give it a listen if you want.



And if you don't want to listen, here are the words:

CITY STREETS
by Carole King

River wind is icy
Chills run through my bones
Tides of life are ebbing out
Between the cobblestones
The streets are on fire
With the burning sunrise
And over the water I look in vain
For love in someone's eyes

Oh, city streets
The stories that they tell
Oh, city streets
They can be heaven, they can be hell

Winter-colored morning
Gray and dirty brown
Reflecting the mood I'm in
Despair is all around
I long for sweet oblivion
To take me from my pain
Maybe bring me dreams of hope and faith
So I can break this chain

Oh, city streets
The stories that they tell
Oh, city streets
They can be heaven, they can be hell

Lovers with their arms entwined
Silhouettes against the light
A warm bed is waiting as they head home
After staying up all night
For them the city is magic
That's all they've ever known
I wish I could find the magic
But I'm scared and I'm feeling so alone

Oh, city streets
The stories that they tell
Oh, city streets
They can be heaven, they can be hell
Oh, city streets
The stories they have known
Oh, city streets, city streets, city streets

Surprised that it has lasted....

I don't know why, but I was almost amazed that this old quilt has lasted as long as it has...it is a quilt I made and gave my older daughter before she ever left home.  It has traveled with her wherever she has lived...she has used and used it.  I was so glad to see it and have the opportunity to take a photo of it...I now try to take a photo of every thing I make.

It is recycled or up-cycled...however you want to look at it.  I went to the local Good Will store, and purchased men's shirts when they were on sale.  I chose sizes that were Large or bigger.  At that time there were a lot of shirts that just screamed that they went well with jeans.  They were cotton.  They were almost new....had hardly been worn.

I brought them home, cut them apart and ironed the pieces.   I decided on to do something simple...at that time I did not have my Juki 98Q so I tied it rather than quilt it.   What is missing in the photos is there were old buttons that were at the center of the few 4-patches.  I think.  I know they were not included in every tie but were sort of random.  I think there are only one or two left...they were old buttons...

Anyway, just had to show that it is still in use after all these years.  I am pretty sure it was made before 1998....

Finished at last...

I don't am showing two different pics...because the color is off a bit in both.


The top photo is too dark...and the second is just a tad bit lighter than I think it really is...

Now the back is a surprise of course.  I like for the back to come as a surprise. Since this fabric is quilted on the straight of grain, it looks good...plus it is the side against the feeddogs.

I am so disappointed in myself and in it.  I try to convince myself that it is fine...it will still be good to snuggle under.  And it will.  But I really like for them to look nice, too.
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It has been ages since I changed the appearance of this blog so took the time and changed the color scheme.  I think I am going to enjoy the new look.  At least for a while.