a birthday glamour shot done with a little soft focus (only a few weeks late). Bisbee turned one year old on Feb 22nd. She is definitely a fiesty girl, but she keeps Sedona (and us!) on our toes!!
our new boarder
Originally uploaded by crimsoncat05
we're landlords! "Spacious, lots of light, and plenty of fresh air- great room with cathedral ceiling". Sound good?? She thinks so! This dove has taken up residence on our tile roof... not the first place I thought a bird would pick, but it seems to suit her.
Sedona and Bisbee, taking in the sun in the backyard. (Bisbee is on the left- she's not quite as big as Sedona, but will have a much fuller coat, I think.) It's been in the upper 80s here recently, but now is back down into the low-mid 70s, where it's supposed to be for this time of year; they do enjoy relaxing in the sun, but very soon want to come back into the house where we are.
Butters and I, doing some internet surfing. She's turned out to be somewhat of a lap cat, now that she's a little older and settling down. It's kind of difficult to operate the mouse when she's laying on my arm. though!
This is the inside of a barbecue restaurant in Albequerque, New Mexico. Tom flew into/out of here last month when he visited a customer site in Sante Fe, and stopped here for brisket and all the fixin's on the way back to the airport. We found this place on our very first trip together, and have always wanted to go back. (I tried to talk him into bringing some home for me, but he didn't think he could get it onto the plane). By the way, our very first trip together was flying out here to Phoenix and driving back to Illinois in a U-Haul truck with some of his belongings, when he was moving back to Illinois- as my friend Karen said, "you will certainly get to know someone when you're in a truck together for two days straight; it's a good way to find out if you caqn get along together." She was right, and it seemed to work out okay, since we just celebrated our 5-year anniversary last week!
here's a look at the outdoor sign at Rudy's, just off of I-40 in Albequerque, NM- I love the retro look of the sign, and highly recommend their barbeque to anyone who's traveling that way! (of course, I'm going to have to wait a while till I can eat there again... but, hopefully we can head to New Mexico this fall for the hot air balloon festival.)
this morning I turned on our local PBS channel (it's pledge time, here), and watched most of a fabulous show on Art Quilts... wonderful inspiration!! Art quilts made from fabric, beads, buttons, handkerchiefs, hand-dyed fabric, orange construction fence, candy bar wrappers, paper, bread ties, and all manner of things for artistic expression. I managed to catch a few names, and need to find out more about them- here are links to a few of them. Please check them out! (I didn' want to use anyone's photos without permission, so you need to click on the links to check out the artwork.)
Pam RuBert, a quilter who makes large cartoon-like art quilts with the main character PaMdora
http://pamrubert.com/artquilts/mysterious.shtml
http://pamrubert.com/about.shtml
Bob Adams, a former art teacher turned art-quilter
http://www.bobadamsart.com/images/Lunar_8_Detail.JPG
http://www.bobadamsart.com/images/Lunar_Series_Night_Study_2.jpg
http://www.bobadamsart.com/about.html
The Chicago School of Fusing- fabric artists who use fusible webbing, not piecing, to make their art quilts
http://www.artfabrik.com/csof.html
http://www.artfabrik.com/gallery.html
Jan Burch Cochran- an art quilter who makes highly embellished art quilts using beads, buttons, rickrack, embroidery, and lots of detail in her work
http://www.janeburchcochran.com/
http://www.janeburchcochran.com/Pages/Gallery2.html
I hope you find something interesting in these links, and that everyone has a good weekend ahead of them! now, I need to go clean up my studio, so I can capitalize on this wonderful inspiration (with paper and glue... and maybe a little fabric or rickrack, added in!)
