This is where Ken and I will be landing -- once we take a bus to a train, to a plane, to another plane, to another plane, to a rental car, that is! We leave our house tomorrow at 5:30 A.M. Pacific Time and land in our rented house (“gite”) the NEXT afternoon at around 4:00 P.M. France time – PHEW! But I have the distinct feeling it will all be worth it!
Not a bad place at all to recover from jet lag, n’est ce pas?!
I’ve been calling this climbing plant with orange, bell-shaped flowers “Mexican honeysuckle.” Here’s a niceo ne climbing up the post on our front porch. But I just googled it and find that I may be wrong. Anyone have any ideas?
The current size is 121” x 109” -– It will get trimmed after it gets' quilted, which is the next step! The top and the back are done. Now I’ll go back to the quilt shop and get a big ol’ roll of batting and a yard of fabric for the binding!
Below is a close-up of the four fabrics I used for the backing. The photo above does not give a true “read” of the fabrics. They are really quite stunning – especially the one on the left, which is O’s favorite. It’s a gorgeous turquoise and cobalt batik in a sort of coral reef pattern. It’s Ken’s fave, too. It did not work with the fabrics used on the front, so I wanted to make sure I used a whole lot of it on the back. And I did! Over 7 yards of it!
Tonight, two seconds before it starts raining, the evening monsoon sweeping in on sunset light, the sweet smell travelling ahead of the big raindrops. (Photo taken in our backyard, looking west, carport in lower right, house on lower left.)
Purple blooms. White blooms. Up against the fence that surrounds our pool/backyard. Don’t know the names of these plants. But I can tell you the plant to the far right is Texas Sage. And the sweet, feathery tree is the distance is a mesquite tree.
Night-blooming cereus, redux, blooming in the daylight! Taken this morning in our backyard. This bloom is about 8 to 10 inches across. It’s cool that we are getting a few more blooms on this cactus, as the bloom season has long since past!
Our humble mountain view. Photo taken from our carport – one of the few places we have a legit “mountain view”! This view is looking north, to the tallest peak in the Santa Catalinas called Broken Top. Especially gorgeous first thing in the morning and at sunset. Photo taken at 9am.
Last night’s threatening sky, Photo taken from our backyard, looking south/southeast, out over our roof and the neighbor’s roof. It never did actually rain.
Now, it’s back to the quilt shop for border fabric – that baby is going to take almost 5 yards of fabric for the borders – PHEW!!
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