A New Quilt

Here's the new rag quilt I made for my niece Megan (sshhh... she doesn't know yet, and I'm pretty confident she doesn't know I have a blog). These are her favorite colors (brown and turquoise), and I found some fun flannel that really shows her personality.

The Real Me

I found this article recently, and it sounded so much like me, at least the "old" me. I think, at age 56, I'm finally the real me. What took me so long? Maybe it has helped that I found my soulmate, someone who accepts me as I am, and loves me with all my idiosyncracies, even thinks they are funny. Go figure! But it's great to be "real."

"Ten years ago I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I'd smile when I was sad, pretend to like people who appalled me. What I now know is that losses aren't cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing. A real tragedy? That's the loss of the heart and soul themselves. If you've abandoned yourself in the effort to keep anyone or anything else, unlearn that pattern. Live your truth, losses be damned. Just like that, your heart and soul will return home." Martha Beck

Another Wildflower Adventure

Yes, it's true. Every spring I spend as much time as possible hunting down the Texas wildflowers. Here's a couple of the images I shot this weekend... enroute to, and at the Wildseed Farm in Fredericksburg, Texas.