Wordless Wednesday ~ Spider Crab in the Gardens

Sunshine Quilters ~ Lake Tahoe Retreat

This weekend my online quilting guild, the Sunshine Quilters are having a retreat in Lake Tahoe, CA. Sadly, due to other vacation plans later in the year, I couldn't join them for a weekend of quilting, eating and having an overall good time.  Those of us at home have been invited to sew along. Here's my first top made of the simple block designed for the retreat.  More to come...

Sunshine Quilters Retreat ~ Lake Tahoe Blocks

6 of about 200 blocks made for the retreat

Wordless Wednesday ~ Eastern Black Swallowtail Kind of Day

Mating Eastern Black Swallowtail Butterflies

Eastern Black Swallowtail Caterpillar

Eastern Black Swallowtail Chrysalis 

Feeling Blessed

I am lucky to live in a place that has some wonderful cloud formations and sunsets.  Tonight we first had a double rainbow over the upstairs before the sunset.  God's miracles are evident in nature.

My Yard Butterflies ~ Variegated Fritillary, Silver Spotted Skipper and Pearl Crescent

Butterfly activity is picking up in the yard.  Happy to see some old favorites and hoping for even more to arrive.

Variegated Frtiillary

Silver-spotted Skipper

Pearl Crescent

New Yard Butterfly #35 ~ Broad-winged Skippers