A New Year - no resolutions!

I left resolutions behind many years ago.  I never kept them and it seems self defeating to beat myself up over it.  Now I just go day by day and do the best I can.  I can't even settle on a word for the year ahead as some people do.  I suppose two words would be okay - "Keep Going".  The last three years have aged me and I have some physical problems. But I try to keep walking, keep getting out, keep working at something.  I haven't been all that successful, but I keep moving ahead.  It is the best I can do right now.  

I had hoped to go to the Madeline Island workshops in Tucson again, but still not well enough to do it this year, maybe next.  I went in January 2018 for a 5-day Sue Benner landscape class.  It is a beautiful desert setting and the weather was perfect.  Of course I took a lot of pictures   And Sue  had us interpret a photo we had taken there to create a small quilt top.  

The Saguaro cactus are so amazing, no matter how many times I see them. 

This agave grows behind one of the residence buildings with a palo verde behind it.   Such an interesting palette. 

The picture I took is on the left with some additions at the top where the picture was cut off.  It is always a challenge to find good fabrics among the boxes we take along to the class.  Sometimes one must compromise.  I think the sky fabric is too strong, but that is what I had with me.  This remains in the "might complete it some day" pile, which is very, very tall!   

Hope I can go back one day, maybe next January?

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