Quilting and other Things

The heart row for next Saturdays (May 23) class is now done.

This month's guest speaker at the Mississauga Quilt Guild was Judith Peckham. On Saturday she taught a thread painting workshop. I worked on a chickadee. Here he is so far. Ready for a little stitching along the tree branches, then borders and quilting. He's 8.5 x 11 inches at the moment. Both the chickadee and tree stump are created with the thread painting. I think this photo from the other weekend would be a fun candidate for this technique

I started at the beginning of the Toronto section this morning. The plan had been to park at the Kelso conservation centre but I missed the turn and ended up parked at the Hilton Falls conservation centre and hiking back to the beginning of the section. A short pause near where the first blaze was painted in July 1962. Up and over several stiles. England has lots of different styles of stiles. The Bruce Trail seems to like this one. The creeks were full. There’s been lots of rain lately. I was having fun playing with the camera settings. This was my favorite at this location. The trilliums are out – and lots of them. Also saw some very beautiful fungus on the trees. The trail goes only the edge of a golf course. No bells to ring as we aren’t actually crossing the fairway. Watching this little guy have a snack, gave me ideas about lunch. I went up the Restoration Side Trail to see what was there. It’s a look out over an area that use to be a rock quarry. Its ...

Today the temp was suppose to go into the mid to high 20's so after the $10 quilt class, I got a sandwich at the Glen Oven and then decided to walk part of the Credit Valley Footpath I parked the car across from the cemetery on Prince street and was going to hike to the end past the paper mill dam but the trail is closed about 500m in on the side leading towards the golf course and paper mill so I followed the trail on the other side of the road. It heads in behind Sheridan Nurseries and comes out near the corner of 22 sideroad and Tenth line. Found this little guy sitting on a tree stump. I don’t think he really liked the flies There were still remnants of last year’s flowers and seeds on the trail. They looked very pretty. There were several butterflies out enjoying the sunshine today. This one almost flew into me several times. He and his friends also danced ahead of me on the trail like they were showing the way The snails were also out When I bent down to g...

The fourth Saturday is coming quickly, but I'm now ready.

I used all three healing and cloning tools to remove the person and vehicle from this photo before after These three photos are from last fall when Dad was building the new deck. At this stage in the process the chipmunk lost his bolt hole.

Cropping From a ski lesson last year in Lake Louise Before After (Using Grid) Cookie Cutter With Mom at Niagara Falls Easter 2008 Before After Filters From the Train window near Washago Before Filter 80 Colour Curve Black & White From Niagara Easter 2008 Before After Skin Tone and Sharpen with Adjust Sharpness My sister and I with Grandparents (from a scanned photo) Before Skin Sharp