We hit the road yesterday and I took the bluebonnet pictures that I promised to Deb Sposa …
along with a video of the field to give some perspective …
We drove by our old house on Cascade Trail, which was hard to see through the overgrown brush (sigh) …
on the way to visit once-upon-a-time neighbors Connie and Karl, who are in the process of selling their house. We were too busy talking for me to think of taking pictures, but here’s a link to the real estate listing and one of the drone images of their incredible home …
It was bittersweet recalling what it was like to have five acres of land … another sigh.
In any case, we were there to receive gifts of rust for Don’s assemblages and cloth for my patchplays. Connie was an intrepid dyer, so it was hard to choose, but here’s the first grouping to be used …
on the table cloth I started last year …
because what better way to spend time than to have two projects going at once?
I'm Going to Texas (version 2.0) 
Only two? I usually have four or five, although some end up neglected for long periods while I’ve completed and added others.
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I’ve tried to keep my focus on one large project at a time (although there are always smaller projects that pop in and out), but it looks like I’m about to backslide … ha!
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So glad you have materials for your creative endeavors.
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thanks again for a wonderful visit …
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Laughing because my first response was “only two?” as well! 🙂 Never enough blue flowers…
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well, only two sitting right next to the stitching chair … there are considerably more projects in waiting in the closet
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5 acres of land sounds real nice. The cloth colors are beautiful here. And the bluebonnets…I’ve never seen them before. So pretty!
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Cascade Trail was magical in the spring, going out to greet all the wildflowers by name … and now I’m wondering how many bluebonnets were in bloom on the back of the floodplain when we drove by
but the land was also a backbreaking amount of work and tricky footing for my osteoporotic bones … even though we were wise to leave when we did, I will always regret that we didn’t stay longer … especially when our grandsons say they miss it, too
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Pretty flowers. That fabric pile looks lovely. Used and well washed fabric is a different league altogether. Yum.
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Used and well washed … to which I would add air dried, as fabric feels so much more itself that way
I’ve used wooden racks for drying clothes for decades … much as I love clothes dried outside on a line, my allergies are triggered by the pollen that is ever-present in Texas (yep, even in the middle of winter, when the Ashe Junipers aka cedars let loose with a months long barrage) … I even hang my sheets out to dry!
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A lovely visit with you in this post. The blue bonnets took my breath away. I think that my flower colour might be blue. Thank you for your blogposts. xo
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You’re welcome … so glad you came by to visit …
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Just had my first chance to see your post of the blue bonnets, and yes, they really look like our lupine here. Thank you for those pix, they are spectacular!! And it must have been so bittersweet to see you last place, especially overgrown. Don used to keep it so nice.
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as we crept by in the car, Don could see some of the plantings at the back of the house … so hopefully the new owners are appreciating all the native plants, which seem to be going strong
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I sure hope they are Liz after all the work you two put into that home and yard.!
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I always felt like we were caretakers rather than owners … it was a privilege to care for the land
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I guess I never realized you and Don weren’t the owners. Well wow, did they luck out having you two care for that property!
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Sorry … that was me being metaphorical … we definitely bought the property
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That’s what I thought LOL
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