
It was more that one year between visits to the bank. Not that we ever went often, but because of the pandemic it was one of many things that we simply ceased to do.
And so, at long last, I went back. Hoping that I wouldn’t be too rusty when it came to opening our safe deposit box. And then, deciding the key would stand as the symbol of this latest return to something like normal …

It was also an opportunity to try out a “what if” … seeing if a stitched border would contain Inktense dye. It did.
And then I looked long and hard at my mismatched strips of patchplay and decided to cut down or completely redo several patches in order to make the February and March strips match the other three …
The new images have been added to the original posts, where I can return and compare them in the future.
And as I wrote this, the verdicts came in at the Derek Chauvin trial. Relief washed over me … Hope has a place to grow.