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?