Variegated Weiglea

Otherwise known as:

Ooooo! Look! How pretty! 

Blowin' in the breeze. 

My neighbors have beautiful gardens.

Good Fortune

Oh, I hope so!

My intent is in the very best of ways.

Friends and Flowers - 5

 Details, details.

I've completed most of the backstitching on the bottom half of this design. I love watching how the backstitching brings the entire piece alive.

Depending on how much time I can put into stitching today, the outlining has a chance of being completed by tonight.

Follow Our Geotrail! - Part 3

Here are the final photos from our birthday/Mother's Day geocache outing. Geocaching is the ideal sport / game for us!

A surprise along the way ... this gnome lives in a hollow tree.

Cache of the Day - a pirate themed cache! It earned a Favorite Point from me.

Cap'n Pete's Hidden Treasure

This guy hung around in the trees, guarding the treasure chest.

Jodie found a travel bug

And so did I! 

And finally, a heart charm came home with me after I exchanged some swag.

It was a lovely, lovely, lively day outside in nature with two of my favorite people in the world.

Follow Our Geotrail! - Part 2

Here are more photos of our birthday/Mother's Day geocache outing. Oregon is beautiful in the Springtime!

Flowers, flowers everywhere

Beauty blooms around the rust.

Texture on texture. Looks prickly to me.

Watch out for thorns if you want to smell a blackberry bloom.

These tall bright torch lilies (red hot pokers) were blowin' in the breeze.

To photograph the itty bity blooms, I got down on my knees.

CITO (Cache In, Trash Out)

Jodie does her bit to keep cache areas clean. 😇

Follow Our Geotrail! - Part 1

To celebrate Dale's birthday and Mother's Day for Jodie and me, we had an excellent day of geocaching. We drove out to the countryside north and west of where we live. We found 10 caches and saw lots of beautiful scenery. 

Take a look!

The scenery

Christmas tree farm. The trees look itty bitty next to the neighboring forest.

A seven layer cake of exquisite Oregon.

I'm pretty sure this is Mt. Washington ... in central Oregon. We had clear skies!

I don't often see old silos made of brick or wood.

Orchards

The Parks

We stumbled across this wildlife refuge. We'll definitely need to return to take in all it has to offer.

This is where we stopped for our picnic lunch.

Part 2 tomorrow!

Friends and Flowers - 4

Latest update on my Suzy's Zoo project. I had a good two days to stitch this week.

I'm not quite done with all the colors. It will all come to life when the backstitching goes in. 

Getting close!