Breakfast at a restaurant always seems luxurious to me! I don't understand why, maybe because my family never went out for that meal. When my sister and I traveled by train in the late 40s from Portland, OR, to Los Angeles going to the dining car and having fresh squeezed orange juice and silver covers on our plates was just too sophisticated for words. When I was in San Diego this last Monday/Tuesday I had breakfast at Farmer's Bottega with my friend Andrea. We ate on their charming patio and the benedict was delicious along with tasty fresh fruit. But it set me up for another visit to Toast in Brea on Thursday with friend Carol. Their benedict is the best, this time with avocado. I was much too busy eating to take pictures.
I was in San Diego to do a program for Canyon Quilters, showing quilts from the Thomas Contemporary Quilt Collection (TCQC). It had been about three years since I did a program due to Covid and I worried that I wouldn't remember how to do it! My friend Liz, who has helped me since I started doing presentations, is ill and unable to help. I was really exhausted from getting the quilts down, "packaging" them for transporting, and then setting up at the meeting. But the members pitched in to help and all went well. I did remember how to do it! I tried to take quilts that I didn't show when I visited the guild in June of 2014, but there are some that are just too interesting to leave out. Ruth B. McDowell's "A Rash of Flamingos" came to me after the original owner died and her heirs contacted Ruth about it. I feel so fortunate that I could add this treasure to the Collection. It is a prime example of Ruth's masterful machine piecing and amazing eye for fabric selection. One of the members took this picture of me in front of Flamingos.
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