Favorite rose and decluttering 05-22-21

My favorite rose again - Brandy.  My second choice is Mr. Lincoln, but I managed to kill that bush and have not replaced it.  I miss the fragrance. 

The changes in medications the doctor recommended may be working!  Although I am still dragging my tail and get so very, very tired at times, my mind seems to be back on track, or almost.  So, not only have I taken books to the Bookman, yesterday I took four smallish boxes of "no-longer-needed" stuff to Charity's Closet, a resale place supporting philanthropic efforts of the Placentia Presbyterian Church.  It is impossible to tell that anything has been removed from my very messy house, but I know they are gone and I feel good about it.  Now to start a few more boxes, putting in things that I don't use or need as I come across them.  Might start with the upper shelves in the kitchen since I have shrunk and can no longer reach them without a ladder and am too old and wobbly to climb a ladder.  Anyway, it is a bit of progress. 

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Quilts at Carlsbad gallery 05-19-21

On Tuesday I drove to Carlsbad to see the exhibit at the Cannon Gallery of a SAQA traveling exhibit.  Worth the drive!  My friend Carol went along and we met Deb and Andrea there.  Including the four of us there were about twelve ladies there; we all wore masks and tried to keep away from each other.  Hard to do when we are all concentrating on the quilts and the signs.  The gallery is only open on Tuesday and Thursday  11am to 5pm and the exhibit closes on May 23rd.  The exhibit has been traveling around the USA for four years.  This may be its last venue. 

Material Pulses: Seven Viewpoints

"Momentum"  Christine Mauersberger  9' tall, 10' deep, 8' wide

To me this is an installation, but not a quilt.  It is layered red plastic strips sewn lengthwise onto netting.  The artist has supplied a explanatory poster with actual fabric pieces one can touch.  The magical thing about this is the cast shadows.

 

Jane Willoughby (two-sided quilt),  two pieces by Elizabeth Brandt

From her "Falling Apart" series,  80" square. 

(detail)

The flowing patterns you see are the very close together quilting lines done in different thread colors. 

Image on the right shows the other side of the quilt.  The gallery attendant will white glove the back if requested.  I imagine the artist wanted these quilts hung this way, but it is too bad they couldn't be hung perpendicular to the wall.

The complex houses several other city offices, including the Carlsbad Library and there is a large patio area with seating and tables.

Andrea, Carol, and Deb waiting for Del.

Great chairs and comfortable. 

We had lunch at Beach Plum Kitchen in the nearby shopping complex.  Good food, great service, tent with well spaced tables.  

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More flowers 05-17-21

This desert plant grows in a small square between the street, the sidewalk and a driveway.  There are about six plants there and i have no idea how they are watered.  It is such a perfect mound and unusual color I took the first picture about ten days ago. Today when we walked I saw that it is covered with tiny yellow flowers, still a perfect mound.

May 6th

May 17th

May 17th

With a little yarrow in the lower corner. 

It was another grey day and we walked in a very slight drizzle this morning and it only got up to 67F today.  Prediction is for four more days of dreary and then some sunshine.  Of course, I always take the weather predictions with a grain of salt.  But sometimes they are true! 

KoKo is with Cherie and Jim tonight so I can leave early for Carlsbad tomorrow.  I hope to be home about 3:30pm, depends on the traffic. 

It is May Greys today 05-16-21

Regardless of climate change, in May we have hot days - in the high 80s - and cool grey days.  Today was one of the latter.  I even had to turn on the little electric heater for an hour or so.  KoKo had a bath and I needed to get him as dry as I could.  Also washed his bed and Froggy in preparation for a night at the KoKo keepers house on Monday and into Tuesday.  

For some unknown reason I seem to be on the mailing list of every non-profit in the country.  Since the first of April I have received about 55 unsolicited solicitation letters.  Who sold me to all these places?  They are really ridiculous - four from ASPC, three from Audubon!  What a waste of money just to ask for money.  I have sent them all back using their return envelopes and putting a stamp on those that weren't franked.  Many of them enclose sheets of return address labels - if I kept them all I could paper my bathroom.  This is all so irritating to me - it actually raises my BP I get so mad.  All in the time of Covid! 

 

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