SAQA Conference - Denver 05-20-11

Lovely sunshine today, lots of puffy, fast-moving white clouds against a very blue sky.  Temp about 60F.

This view of an old stone church was taken from the pedestrian overpass from the Comfort Inn to the Brown Palace Hotel.  The trees, as you can see, are just getting fully leafed out - it is still Spring here and the lilacs are in bloom.  Crews of men with towering trays of flowers in small pots were replanting the large flower bowls along the sidewalks. 

This old stone and brick building is to the left of the office building that is just barely visible in the top image.  I don't know what it is, but I think that Navaree carved below the eaves is a word associated with Mormons.

This picture is to the east as the sun was setting.  We had driven out to Golden to see two fiber art shows, one at the Quilter's Newsletter Magazine offices and the other at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, both were excellent.  Then back to Denver to see an exhibit of three artists in a large gallery associated with an entire building of artists studios - the building is an old ice house.  Some amazing work by Carol Ann Waugh using both hand stitching and the fancy stitches on her sewing machine.  She took our group of five back to see her studio and her newest work.  I am impressed.  

 
We had all ordered ahead of time for a fancy lunch today.  Luana (pronounced to rhyme with Iguana) Rubin of eQuilter gave the Keynote Address: "Finding and Creating Your Vision".  I think she is an amazing person with the talent and charisma of Oprah!  She talked about her life and growth and how she got to where she is today - very inspirational and sometimes quite funny.  I greatly enjoyed her presentation.  The lunch was good (Turkey Wrap for me) and the dessert was fabulous.  As you can see above, it was also nicely presented.  There was a box with three donated pieces of SkyDyes on each table and one lucky person at each table took it home with them.  Not me!  Not Ruth!

It is very late and I am exhausted.  Don't worry if I don't Blog tomorrow after the banquet.