Like sunshine

One of my volunteer sunflowers has this bloom...sunflowers are almost like sunshine you can touch. They are the most cheerful blossom!
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I got the backing for the baby quilt made today.  But not going to work on getting the quilt sandwich together right yet.  We will have Lorelei next week so will just wait till after she is gone. 

I have also taken the rest of the batiks for Daughter's quilt and assigned them to either have a light triangle or a dark triangle.  I do want to try to start cutting the jewel pieces.  I have the triangles cut, just need to cut the bigger pieces.

It is not so hot here today...has stayed overcast the entire day.  It has really been nice to sit outside, but instead I was down in the basement working with material:)

From the little shop in Paris, Illinois...

This sign caught my eye the first thing...it is not old.  At least I assumed it wasn't as there were two or three more scattered around the place.  For the life of me I cannot remember the name of the little shop.  It was in just small little old building...and divided in half.  I don't know if it had always been that way or if she had had it done to give herself more wall space.

I really, really liked the sign but I came home without it.  I was proud of myself. 

This was in the same shop...I love it.  Again, I did not bring it home.  It is Roseville...$125 if I remember correctly.  It is beautiful.  I just went to Picassa and enlarged this pic...the name of the place is The Cherry Tree.  You can read about it here.   And this is their facebook page. I really did enjoy looking in her shop.  I am so trying not to bring in any more stuff...I still hoping to get back to decluttering...

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I think it was last fall at a flea market during covered bridge, a lady had what appeared to be Roseville but she said it was fake.  I forget how to tell the difference.  I am in no way implying the above is fake...seeing it just made me remember seeing the fake and wondering how to tell the difference.

Still plugging along....

I cannot believe that it is Thursday already....the week has flown.  It is time for the Willy Nilly Friday 5 again...I think I skipped it last week.  Going to try to get 'er done this week, though.

1.  We pass the above Toyota truck going to and from Lorelei's house.  We have been driving by it for a couple years and it is always just like this.  We often wonder what the plans are for it.

2.  Every now and then it hits me just how many songs have the word 'rain' in their Title.
     a.  Have You Ever Seen the Rain--CCR (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
     b.  Who'll Stop the Rain--CCR
     c.  It's Raining Again--Supertramp
     d.  Rainy Days and Mondays--The Carpenters
     e.  Here Comes the Rain Again--Eurythmics (Annie sings as if it takes no effort at all)
     f.  Rainy Day People--Gordon Lightfoot  (Oh, my, I forgot how much I love this!)
     g.  Rhythm of the Falling Rain--The Cascades
     h.  No Rain--Blind Melon
     i.  Set Fire to the Rain--Adele  (Can anyone else sing like her!!!)
     j.  November Rain--Guns N' Roses (Who could forget this one?  My favorite by them!)
I was only going to list 5 'rain' songs, but just couldn't stop. 

3. Sorry, but I forgot:
    Fire and Rain--James Taylor
    I Wish it would Rain Down--Phil Collins
    Let It Rain--Eric Clapton (I didn't remember this...just saw it and though how could I forget this?)
   And I thought of this earlier but almost forgot...yet could I ever forget
   Smokey Mountain Rain--Ronnie Milsap
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   Mandolin Rain--Bruce Hornsby and the Range
I think that is all I will list for now...but found others I like...what rain song did I leave out that you love? 

4.  I don't know how many times I have ran into blog posts/people that mentioned that it is the little things...and it is.  Take time to savor them.  Like this milkweed blossom getting ready to pop open.  A lot of things I have truly appreciated since I was a young kid, but milkweed was not one of them and I often wonder how I could have been so blind to its true beauty.

Just look at it--isn't it gorgeous?

5.  I just finished Blind Courage by Bill Irwin....Bill Irwin was blind but he, with his Seeing Eye dog Orient walked/hiked the Appalachian Trailm which is over 2000 miles long. 

6..  I am still having glitches with computer/google.  Blogs did not want to open for me this morn.  Some opened fine, others not at all, but they did this evening.  I still have visits to make.  I still feel like it is google...because I have a Windows laptop and a Chromebook and both are messing up.  Today, it was the search function that did not work.  I had to go to Bing to do searches...and I know a lot of people use Bing and others, but I find one thing that works and tend to stick with it.

Edited to add:  I just have to add one more rain song:
Early Morning Rain--Gordon Lightfoot
and one more and I am really dating myself with it, I remember liking it when it was new
Here Comes that Rainy Day Feeling Again--the Fortunes.