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now onto the scary part. quilting it. i never know if what i think will look good will ACTUALLY look good. hope it goes well and hope you enjoy this little bundle of cheer partner!
ingredients:
misc colored scraps, kona coal or maybe charcoal (i get confused), kona medium grey and some delish linen!
**Edit: the pattern is from the oh so talented penny of sewtakeahike. its from her funky peppermint table runner**
Kicking off my second year of FAFM-ing with three As in one arrangement.
Aperture plates, this particular style used in Simplex X-L and later Simplex 35 projectors, serve to mask off the full film frame down to the correct aspect ratio. Mouse over the black handles for more information.
The asterisk, other than the scale of the symbol, needs no further explanation on my part, because the Wikipedia link gives such exhaustive information on the little character.
The background, an old pillowcase used last year for my letter-M entry, was selected for its geometric pattern. Its angular contribution to the letter-A theme was an afterthought. ;)
Explored February 1, 2024
This Christmas decoration at Lake Eola Park in downtown Orlando strikes me as the perfect symbol for 2020...a giant 3D asterisk that can be viewed from any angle. In this pre-dawn moment it looks particularly well illumined.
i've been planting shrubs bought from b&q and wilko. plants with an * asterisk have been planted today. the garden doesn't look much in the photo but fingers crossed as the weeks pass i'll have some colour ... (beginning of garden preparation flic.kr/p/2mn2x8a )
rocks, stones, broken crockery and canes surrounding the plants to help prevent pet damage. tall obelisk covering blackcurrant, shorter obelisk (centre bed) covering mint. i've lost a couple of lavenders but all things considered i'm not doing too badly, ofcourse there's plenty of time for that to change :)
sandy area on the right, to be planted, though i may use the area to place pots/garden ornaments. for the moment options open
tall
*edgeworthia chrysantha heavily scented left, top end near shed www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/edgeworthia-chrysantha/classid....
*prunus kojo-no-mai left, mid garden www.ornamental-trees.co.uk/prunus-incisa-kojo-no-mai-tree...
corkscrew hazel right, behind the bird table www.gardenersworld.com/plants/corylus-avellana-contorta/
choisya ternata left, mid garden www.rhs.org.uk/plants/3766/choisya-ternata-mexican-orange...
*viburnum 'tinus' right, top end of garden www.rhs.org.uk/plants/18950/viburnum-tinus/details
white buddleia right, top end of garden www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/trees-and-shrubs...
purple buddleia right, top end of garden www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/trees-and-shrubs...
hibiscus mauve left, patio end of garden www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-grow-hib...
young hibiscus mauve left, top end of garden www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-grow-hib...
medium
*euphorbia 'ascot rainbow' right, mid garden, in front of bird table
www.gardenersworld.com/plants/euphorbia-x-martini-ascot-r...
*cistus corbariensis right, mid garden in front of bird table
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/94293/cistus-corbariensis/details
*cistus purpureus left, near patio end of garden
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/90960/cistus-x-purpureus/details
*escallonia 'red dream' left, mid garden near cottage ornament www.thompson-morgan.com/p/escallonia-red-dream/t80278TM
fuchsia 'snowcap' right, top of garden
www.jparkers.co.uk/6-fuchsia-snowcap-1012093
euonymus 'harlequin' right, top of garden in front of laburnum www.jparkers.co.uk/euonymus-fortunei-harlequin-0001955c
geums centre bed, left top of garden and right mid garden
geum 'koi' orange
www.ballyrobertgardens.com/products/geum-coccineum-koi
geum 'lady stratheden' yellow
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/99612/geum-lady-stratheden-(d)/details
geum 'mrs bradshaw' red
www.gardenia.net/plant/geum-mrs-j-bradshaw-avens
red hot poker, pot on patio www.rhs.org.uk/plants/articles/misc/kniphofia
arum lily, pot on patio
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/19190/zantedeschia-aethiopica-arum-...
ferns
dryopteris left, top end of garden
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/dryopteris
setiferum 'soft shield' fern left, top end of garden near shed www.rhs.org.uk/plants/13490/polystichum-setiferum/details
holly fern 'fortunei' left, top end of garden near shed www.rhs.org.uk/plants/22791/cyrtomium-fortunei/details
climbers
honeysuckle heckrottii 'american beauty' left, top end of garden www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/lonicera--heckrottii-american-b...
*cotoneaster 'coral beauty' left, top of garden www.rhsplants.co.uk/plants/_/cotoneaster--suecicus-coral-...
pink jasmine right, mid garden and patio end
www.gardenersworld.com/plants/jasminum-beesianum/
white jasmine left, mid garden www.rhsplants.co.uk/plants/_/jasminum-officinale/classid....
*ceanothus 'snow flurry' right, mid garden www.jparkers.co.uk/ceanothus-snow-flurrie/?fo_c=193&f...
climbing rose 'constace spry' pink left, mid garden www.davidaustinroses.co.uk/products/constance-spry-climbi...
ivy left, right, back of garden
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/ivy/growing-guide
fruit
gooseberry left, patio end of garden
www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/gooseberries/grow-your-own
raspberry 'autumn bliss' left, patio end of garden www.rhsplants.co.uk/plants/_/raspberry-autumn-bliss/class...
blackcurrant right, patio end of garden
www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/blackcurrants/grow-your-own
wild blackberry training across the back fence
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/plants/...
vegetable
rhubarb 'livingstone' left, patio end of garden www.rhs.org.uk/plants/140198/rheum-hybridum-livingstone-p...
herbs
mint edging, centre bed
www.rhs.org.uk/herbs/mint/grow-your-own
sage 'officinalis' edging, centre bed www.rhs.org.uk/plants/16356/salvia-officinalis-common-sag...
lemon scented thyme edging, centre bed
www.gardeningchannel.com/how-to-grow-lemon-thyme-thymus-c...
low
dwarf fuchsia middle of centre bed
www.rhsplants.co.uk/plants/_/fuchsia-tom-thumb/classid.20...
aubretia kitte blue left, edging, centre and right
www.express.co.uk/life-style/garden/564788/How-to-grow-au...
arabis 'rose delight' edging, left, patio end of garden www.shootgardening.co.uk/plant/arabis-blepharophylla-rose...
cerastium tomentosum white centre bed
www.gardenia.net/plant/cerastium-tomentosum-snow-in-summer
lavender 'javelin' left, edging, centre and right
plants.englishgardens.com/12150001/Plant/26748/Javelin_Fo...
primulas left and right, edging, top of garden
www.gardenia.net/guide/types-of-primulas
vinca 'atropurpurea' periwinkle left, top of garden near shed
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/96889/vinca-minor-atropurpurea/details
vinca 'gertrude jekyll' periwinkle left, top of garden near shed
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/94534/vinca-minor-f-alba-gertrude-j...
bulbs
two white tower lilies 'pretty woman' left, mid garden www.wilko.com/en-uk/wilko-tower-lily-pretty-women-16-18cm...
daffodils (coming into flower)
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/daffodils/growing-guide
bluebells (peeping through)
www.sundaygardener.co.uk/how-to-grow-bluebells.html
snowdrops (a few flowered, the rest blind, maybe next year they'll have more energy)
www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-grow-sno...
for many years my garden was a shrubbery flic.kr/p/Lhv9ag which i loved. a picket fence covered in an ivy hedge coming down in a storm meant that over time changes had to happen flic.kr/p/2mn2x8a i'll be glad when the trellis is covered in honeysuckle and jasmine. that's the plan ... i'm not making recommendations. it's just chat ...
www.flickr.com/groups/gardening_is_my_hobby/ helpful for ideas. thank you for sharing
she's quilted, bound, and labeled. ready for shipping.
i went with VERY simplistic quilting here. i tried hand quilting around the asterisks with thread... BOO it was hideous and really make the quilt look horrible. so i unpicked it... put it aside came back and quilting around each asterisks with a light grey thread.
simple quilting=great for me!
i love the way it turned out.
I'm liking the added orange border better, but the more I think about it, a quilt out of blocks of asterisks with a solid background and no border would be really cool too.
Looks better pressing L
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My daughter took this photo years ago. The story part is between the rows of asterisks.
Sparky the Golden Retriever, after his bath. He is all nice and clean and ready to say Hi to Latte, Mel, Toby and Montana. He likes cats. We used to have one named Karma and one named Calico. He was very good with them, and they napped together.
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Actually, Sparky had kind of a sad beginning in life, well, mixed really. He was the pet of a boy that had Cystic Fibrosis (sometimes understood as being said 65 roses). He and the dog, Sparky, doted on one another, and about a year or 18 months later, the boy died of his disease. I'm sure Sparky was crestfallen and of course the parents of the boy. Now my way of thinking would have been to keep the sweet dog around, but their way was to remove the bad memories. At least that is what we were told. A family in their church group took him in, but basically he just sat in a muddy backyard all day, and the kids lost interest, and mom or mom and dad were overwhelmed with other stuff. They put an ad in the paper for a free Golden Retriever. I had my doubts, figuring if he were free, he probably would be mixed breed with something not flattering, or some glaring fault. I was so wrong. I took pictures of our country home to give some scope to where he would be living if they chose us. He greeted us at their door, with them too, of course, and wiggled friendliness all over. He took to me and my husband and my children, instantly, and there was no going back. He was "our dog". We let him be a house dog lots of the time too, and from the moment he saw our home and got to be with us in it, I don't think he ever looked back at any other home or family. He already knew sit, stay, and heel, from the boy that had him. We trained him not to hurt the chickens we had for awhile, by saying, "Don't Hurt the Chickens" in a serious voice. He responded to that, and when we moved to another country place that came with all kinds of free animals on it, it didn't seem to matter whether he was bothering a horse, or a guinea hen, or duck, we would say, "Don't Hurt the Chickens" and he would stop pestering.
That should quality for "My Story" "Pictures with Stories" and "My Life As" someone who has had many dogs and others pets, and liked to take pictures of them.
For a long time now, I have not been able to remember who actually took this picture, me or my daughter. My daughter, Jennifer, tells me that she is absolutely positive that she took the picture. So, on June 22, 2007, I am hereby giving her credit for the photograph.
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A local playground was overhauled last year and the new jungle gym has an interesting, colorful sunscreen. Up close, the center of the sunscreen looks like an asterisk. From a distance, it appears to be a tent.
A | Angles, aperture plates, and an asterisk • B | Ball bearings
C | CFL • D | Dispensers; one ready to dispense.
E | Extender, to the extreme • F | Film, the reel thing
G | Greasy gearmotor • H | Headphones, wired and wireless
I | Intermittent Movement • J | Juice, orange juice
K | Knurled • L | Light, from LEDs -[ FAFM '24] -
M | A monkey and his monkey wrench • N | Nuts, in a word
O | Oil on the label • P | Power supply powering pushbuttons
Q | Quadraphonic quartet • R | Relays
S | Spatulas, standard and supersized • T | Taps: threads with a twist -[ FAFM '24 }-
U | Unusual universal joints • V | Valve-sterisk!
W | Wrecked, written off • X | XLRs on x-hibition
Y | Yellow, and yearning for another challenge • Z | Zip cord
*>>Explored<<
By the numbers:
26 days
11 electrical and electronic item photos
10 photos taken with the Canon Nifty Fifty
10 photos with shirts as backgrounds
4 film and projection-related item photos
4 photos whose letter refers to a property not in the item’s name
3 household item photos
3 mechanical item photos
3 photos with pillowcases as backgrounds
3 tool photos
2 Explored photos
2 industrial item photos
1 grocery item photo subject to Flickr Rule #1
1 hardware item photo
1 photo taken out in the field
- and -
1 good time!
Since this exercise will only get more difficult as years go by, I don’t know if my treasure hunt tactic will still work. I have one possible theme idea for next year, but it’s a secret.
Amazing and very bright little family ~
STORY PART is between the rows of asterisks.
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I had some time to kill between medical appointments; so I went to a shopping center that spreads out rather haphazardly. It has lots of pavement and roads, and parking lots, and angles and areas. It is in the northern part of Corvallis, Oregon, which sounds prettier if one says Willamette Valley. As frequently happens though, is that the prettier name doesn't pinpoint the place as precisely as the other. Oh, and for non-local people it is not Willamette with the accent on the last syllable and rhyming with "met." A more colloquial way to remember how to pronounce it correctly is with accent on second syllable and, "It's Willamette, damn it!"
So there I was at this place which I have just described with such superfluous verbosity, and not really needing to purchase anything, I went to the duck pond. It is not a pond with green grass borders like at a park. It has a chain-link fence around it and that is surrounded by asphalt. The water is disgusting looking. I sort of suspect it is some kind of sewage "thing" for the shopping center. I can't imagine how any duck could live in or near it, but they do. Most of my life I thought it was the proper thing to do to feed bread to ducks. The last decade or so, I have heard that is not at all proper, and in fact the bread is not good for the ducks. Anyway, people at the shopping center feed bread to the ducks and all manner of leftover fast food. Much of this just fouls the water.
I wasn't very enthused by what I saw and thought I would go turn around and exit the shopping center to go do something else. I drove down between a restaurant and a grocery store, and caught sight of a mother mallard and many babies following close behind her. I grabbed my camera and tried to get a shot. All I got was a blurry shot of the backside of all of them. I sped up a little bit, like maybe from 5 m.p.h. to 8 m.p.h. I put down the passenger window and tried to get a bit ahead of them, but they were walking at a pretty good clip, and I couldn't do. it. I got one sort of good shot with the babies, but the mom's head was cut off in my photo.
At the time, there was no one driving nor walking from either direction; so my photographic efforts weren't really hurting anyone. I was sending vibes to the mother duck, "Oh Mama, be careful! You are going the wrong way! There is no water down that direction." She was oblivious to my vibes, and resolute in her direction and intentions. The ducklings were adorable. Imagine the mother handling eleven offspring with no hands, and only two orange feet and a beak. Other drivers who probably had no idea what I was doing, were closing in behind me. I pulled as far to the side of the road as I could, and motioned for some to go by. Some did, and few also stopped to see what was going on. Those of us who were raised with the completely marvelous and classic children's story of "Make Way for Ducklings" were enthralled with this scene. We don't see a mother duck and that many ducklings waddling down a city type of sidewalk every day (albeit within a shopping center). I loved that story a long, long time ago, and still do. I read it to my daughter and to her daughter.
Suddenly the mother turned left, not a subtle left, but an abrupt 90 degree angle left. She and her brood had left the moderate safety of the sidewalk and crossed the road which afforded no safety. I could no longer see her. She was under the front of my truck and at what distance I knew not. I was quite anxious. I could risk that they would get run over; or I could risk the ire of other drivers. Being sentimental and a photographer, guess which risk I took? I pointed to my camera and grinned sheepishly at other drivers. I am thrilled to say no one blasted me with their horn. The other drivers went on about their business and I could then see the duck family had successfully crossed the street and ducked (pun most certainly intended) under a fence. The fence was about an exact match for the fence at the aforementioned unpleasant pond. Lo and behold, there was a second pond of which I had never been aware. Mama duck knew exactly what she was doing, and where she was going. The water appeared to be substantially cleaner. I was so happy for her little family. I pulled into a gravel parking lot nearby, and parked this time, not blocking any traffic. I got a few pictures of them in the water.
I noticed the openings in the fence were plenty big enough to allow the babies to pass through, but not the mother. My curiosity got to me. Oh, doesn't it always? I walked over to the other side of the pond, to the point I remembered seeing them going under the fence. I wanted to see how the mother got through. Someone, and I doubt it was a duck, had pulled/pushed part of the fence upward from the ground. It was just big enough of an opening that the mother could lead her family through it. I had the distinct feeling she had been there before. I don't know who made the opening in the fence, but it worked great.
I was amazed at this little family. I will not again underestimate the intelligence of ducks in general nor of mother ducks in particular.
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FOR ABCs and 123s (pool) this is number 11 - ELEVEN ducklings
Metaphor for the night sky: A trillion asterisks and no explanations. ~ Robert Brault
Starry sky over the east side of Zion National Park (just LOVE my new GPS; makes it a whole lot easier to remember where I took some of my images)....I can't even begin to explain the WOW factor; best viewed on black; just click on the image itself for a better look :-) Have a great Sunday, and as always, thanks for all your visits and comments!!!!
© Darlene Bushue - All of my images are protected by copyright and may not be used on any site, blog, or forum without my permission.
The Christmas tree skirt I'm working on. I like the way the asterisk block technique looks like the star of Bethlehem from old kid's books. Blogged.
* Some assembly required.
Although it may not be apparent to the homeviewer, this possesses truncated icosahedron icosidodecahedron nature. Twelve pieces of polypropylene, harvested from Staples poly file folders. From an idea I saw in fdecomite's photostream. The module is right here.
This is nine inches in diameter, a little small for a soccer ball. It can take a kick quite well, but two healthy ten-year-olds would probably reduce it to hash in a couple minutes' time. One would need thicker plastic or a smaller scale. Maybe hackysack size.
Below asterisks is update on me and Covid-19. I put it with my bench picture for Bench Monday (10-11-21) and I'm also putting it here with this different bench on Monday (10-18-21). Whew, I need to sit on a bench and rest after all this writing. ;o)
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I tried to make this to all who posted here, and I keep messing it up. So I'll just say without individually listing you, that I am doing better. I did have vaccine last April and May and then I tested positive for Covid on October 6, 2021 and received some sort of Anti-viral I.V. which is not yet totally approved by FDA (I'm guessing FDA is who does the approvals) but it is the best they have yet. It seemed to have about 3 names, and I don't seem to get any of them correct. It had a 70% chance of working to stop the Covid-19 for those who got it, and I misinterpreted that to mean that 30% of people who went for that procedure would die. I was much too *all or nothing* in my interpretation. 30% would NOT all just fall over dead. Many would just still have Covid19 but not die, and I guess some would end up dying. I progressed well, spent 10 days in what my doctor called self-isolation and I mix up with the word quarantine. I was pretty well behaved, but I had either my doctor or Lane County Health's permission (I can't remember, or maybe it was the medical staff that gave me the I.V.). Anyway I asked for and received an OK to go out in my vehicle, by myself, and take pictures through my windshield with rain on it (Raintings) but not mingling with any people. I was tired so didn't go out very many times, but I did a few; it felt nice to do a fun hobby without infecting anyone and without making myself worse.
By the way, the gray and white and black bench was where I starting composing this information. That particular bench was possibly at RiverBend Hospital in Springfield, Oregon but had nothing to do with this recent bout of Covid-19. I just went though my archives for a needed bench picture for last Monday, October 11, 2021, When I started writing up some information about how I am doing, I started on the page with that bench. I decide later to also post the information to this picture above, a tub of flowers on each side of and supporting a bench.
This Monday, the 18th of October, 2021, I was out of *quarantine* and pronounced today doing well by my doctor; so I didn't use old archive pictures, but went out and took this one just today, well actually NOT this one with the modern looking pattern of black, white and gray that I first starting composing what I wanted to say;, but the NEW one with a bench supported by two slatted tubs of brightly colored flowers. I started this script to address my nice Flickr friends about how I'm doing. I think though, that I will put this up in the description box and also put it on the bench with flowers on each side, and do that right away tonight 10-18-21 so it will be in 2 places. There now, that should all be clear as a Texas River.
Doc said next comes Flu Shot soon, but no Covid-19 things like a possible 3rd vaccine until January 2022. So thanks for inquiring.
I need to go tell my Flickr friend Debbie that she can blow the candle out now. That was so sweet of her to keep it burning until I said I was OK. Thanks all, Delina
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