Super duper hot out there. 98 degrees now. Real Feel 107. I watered at 7:30 this morning so that the stream didn’t evaporate. We walked Finn early.
Big tear day. I never know why exactly, although at this point the better question might be on the rare day that I don’t cry, why not?
I’d chop this one up if there were four sensible quadrants, but stuff would be sacrificed and I’m not willing, so chaotic it will remain!
We quilters love to show off the backs of our work, don’t we? MR — I hope that doesn’t make me a “braggy quilter”!
I had fun extending patterning across seam lines with appliqué and stitch (like the flowers and butterflies). I also took the liberty of outlining a house or two to make them more distinct. I’m gonna call this one done.
“Blackbird and the Full Moon.”
A kind of ghosting, that crossing over.
Cool here only 92.😂
Ghosting. Yes. Especially when I use some of those sheer fabrics.
I love all your stitching.
Thank you, Roberta.
Love this quilt. And the back 🙂
I have fabric to send you – ok?
xo
Thank you! I only want the turtles and the indigo?
I will send 🙂 xoxo
Thanks!
Love this little Blackbird Full moon quilt!
Your plants all look beautiful even in the terrible heat!
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Thanks, Pam. They’ve wilted a bit since I took this picture.
They will bounce back🌱🪻🪴
Yes
Dee~ “Oooh baby, baby it’s a wild world…”🎶 I like the wild garden a lot!
I like you real garden as well. The shady part, up against the lil building is so peaceful.
We were at 88 on our walk today. So strange to have you (and Jude) be hotter! We talked about air quality, which has been “brown”. I wondered if there is a place to live that doesn’t have to worry about air quality?!!
Perhaps not why or why not…but not to question at all, just go with the flow. I’m considering if knowing why or why not would change that pain at all. I’m pondering if it is just pain, of varying degrees, coming and going each day. (((hugs)))
To not really know — I don’t spend a lot of time trying to figure it out. But I do notice.
What is a brown air rating?
Dee~ Just the air quality readings – our air has looked so ‘brown’ lately. Did you notice this at your brother’s? Ours is at “Moderate” “51” today, yet you can barely see the mountains. Some sites say it is “Good” – it is not. I had been wondering if there was a place where the air is not a daily thought/concern about the pollution levels.
Billy’s (in the afternoon) was mostly blue except for when the grey plume from that Boyles Height fire was wafting north. I wonder what turns the air brown? We don’t worry too much about air quality here.
Dee~ nice! Smog is a problem in SoCal.
Just like a garden needs watering, so do we and especially when life hands us sorrow. So in those times we cry until we have no more tears. i call it moisture deprivation, those days when tears do not flow. Doesn’t mean they are not there, it’s just that we are re-storing ourselves for the next time.
Hot is the main word around here in New Mexico these days. Triple digits, the norm. We are not only under fire danger warnings, heat stroke danger but also in the past couple of days, smoke from several fires have caused us to have impact air quality days. Most cities here are putting on firework restrictions but some jerks here, have already started shooting off fireworks, firecrackers, etc…as if this 250th anniversary of America is anything to celebrate.
So I look at your pulsing, chaotic quilt, that is wonderful and just moves me so:; the “chaos” so apt in how I think of America these days for in the multitude of all of your patches, you have butterflies. My heart opens to see these butterflies because they have always been symbols of Hope to me.
Recently Rebecca Solnit wrote in The Guardian, an article titled, “What is the United States of America Now? These words held me: She wrote: “I do not believe that Trump will destroy the US, but he has badly broken it, and what comes after has to include consequences for the criminals and a massive cleanup operation. There will be no return to how things were, and we must go ahead by fixing what allowed this destruction to happen.” She added, “In the end, I come back to Abraham Lincoln at the battlefield and burial grounds of Gettysburg: “It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work … that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Some may say that at 78 years of age, I am politically naive but I say these words, as I did long ago:
Hope is standing up,
Not standing aside
To connect in a way that helps to make us all one.
Love everything you wrote here .. thank you!!! Tina
Well you certainly understand the cycle of tears. THanks for mentioning the Solnit article. You were the second person to do so recently so I finally tracked it down and read it. Hope is so important especially as so many of us realize how on this July 4 of 2026 how many of us are in a state of mourning about our country.
Those temps sound alarming. Stay cool!!
Dee what you wrote about dealing with PTSD .. makes total sense. You’ve definitely been double whammed. All those tears are your bodies way of washing away the sorrows of it all. Just my opinion! One day at a time … hopefully you’re sleeping a bit better. Continue to hold you in my prayers.
Thank you Tina. I know the memories of THAT DAY will fade. I just wish they’d fade faster.