LUNCH WITH A BIRD

 A Coopers Hawk flew quickly and closely by as it swooped into our backyard while Darrell and I were having lunch on the deck.  I thought it was carrying something.  It landed in the trees in the back of our yard.  With binoculars I got a closer look.  It was a Coopers Hawk and it appeared to have a pigeon.  

We left it alone.  Later we found evidence that it did indeed enjoy it's pigeon lunch.  When Darrell went to dispose of the remains he noticed it had a band on it's leg.  

I did some searching online and found the band was distributed by a Pigeon Racing Association.  There was a phone number for reporting the band number  and I called it.  That person told me the band was sold to someone in Seattle.  I called him and let him know of  his pigeon's demise.  "Dang", he said.

WENT DOWNTOWN

 Darrell had to go downtown to pick up his repaired camera lens at Glazers.  On the way we stopped at Honest Biscuit to get breakfast sandwiches.  We took them to the Sculpture Garden in Magnuson Park and sat and looked out at the bay.  Then we walked over to see the Ai Wei Wei installation of his "Zodiac Animal Head" sculptures.

I saw this beauty on our way out of the park.

We walked by the famous metal tree sculpture that was being enjoyed by a crow.

BUTTERCUPS!

 We harvested our Buttercup squash today.  Jelly did not help.  But she's going to guard them for us.

TURN OF WHICH CENTURY QUILT

 Here's a quilt I made in 1998 using only fabrics from an RJR Fabrics Smithsonian collection.  It was made for the Log Cabin Challenge.  This a pineapple quilt.  The squares are 7" that I paper pieced.

I call it "Turn of Which Century?"  it is about 59" by 73"

I entered it in the Evergreen Piecemakers Quilt show in 1998, it won the President's Award and was votedcome in 3rd place for Viewers Choice.

FINISH #17 FOR THE YEAR

 Here is a quilt that wasn't on my UFO list.  But, I had a strong desire to make it and see if it looked like I'd imagined.  I think it's different than I imagined, but I like it.  It works.  Today I quilted a pantograph onto it.  I was making the binding while Erik the longarm was working on it.  When it was done, I sewed the binding on while on zoom with the BP Finish it Friday group.

This is Finish number 17 for the year.

It is called "Dragonfly Dance" it is 38.5" by 49.5"

DRAGONFLY DANCE

 When I was in Tucson in February at a workshop there were other workshops happening at the same time.  One of them was a quilting workshop with a pop-up quilt shop.  I resisted going to it until someone in my workshop came back with some fabric I found very interesting.  So, I went down and bought a yard, it is called Dragonfly Dance.

Yesterday I cut the fabric into 6" squares.  I only got 30 out of the yard.  Then I cut some dark teal and black e bond fabric that complemented it.  I paired them and made 60 half-square-triangle squares out them.  

Today I trimmed them to 5-1/2" squares and sewed them into a small quilt top.  It is 38-1/2" by 49-1/2".

Then I found some fabrics in my stash and made a backing for it.

SUNFLOWERS

 I love sunflowers.  I planted some seeds this year not thinking I'd get any flowers because we don't get a lot of sun in our yard.  But, lo!  I have flowers.  I'm so happy.  And the bees are loving them, too.