I walked along a shady trail at Van Patten Woods on Monday afternoon. I turned a corner and there was a whole patch of my favorite Turk's cap lilies.
Lots of black raspberries, too. I plucked a few and ate 'em on the spot.
No long walk yesterday, just a stroll around the neighborhood after dinner.
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I assembled the guild challenge quilt and made a placemat out of some of the scraps. (Still a surprise so no photos.)
For many, many years I participated in the Baseball Swap where we swapped 6.5" fabric squares according to how many games our favorite MLB teams lost and won. I'm not swapping now but I still have a lot of squares. They are just right for Carolina Chain blocks, the WITB (what's in the box?) project I began who knows when.Each square provides components for two blocks.
The blocks are 4.5" unfinished. I'm aiming for 288 to make a 64" x 72" quilt.
NEWS FLASH!!! The quilt shop called and my sewing machine is fixed. He said the feed dog lever was stuck. There were two small springs missing (oops) and he cleaned it, too. I'll pick it up tomorrow.
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A Walk in the Park won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for nonfiction this year.* Kevin Fedarko spoke at the awards reception and I got an autographed copy of the book. He and his friend Pete McBride set out to hike the 750-mile length of the Grand Canyon. Their trip was underwritten by National Geographic (Fedarko as writer, McBride as photographer). Though both had some experience with the canyon they soon found they were woefully unprepared (and how!) for a through-hike. They stopped, regrouped, and with the help of many generous Canyon experts they persisted and succeeded. *It also won the National Outdoor Book Award.
Fedarko includes history, ethnography, geology, botany, and sociology in his account. Notes for each chapter provide sources and further reading.
When Fedarko was signing the book I told him that we had been to the west entrance of the Canyon (the Hualapai reservation) in 2003. That was before the skydeck observation platform and the helicopter rides. He said we were lucky to have had that experience when we did.Road Scholar, 2003: Our group rode in a van down the bumpy road to the bottom of the canyon. We ate lunch with our feet in the Colorado River!
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