I found a new, wonderful, time-sucking spot online. This photo is just one of the amazing images from the facebook page, Animal Story.

Also check out the Blue photos. Nature really is stranger and more interesting than I can imagine…

Finding this site is not the only thing I've been up to. I spent most of last week working on a photo shoot at C&T. Here is Diane Pederson, the C&T photographer, in the room where we did the shoot.

I spent a good part of the time sitting in a chair about where Diane is standing holding stitching in my hands over the card table behind her. Diane got in place over-around-next to me, focusing in on what I was doing. All in all, she took more than 200 photos in our 3 days together. While the set-up isn't lovely, the photos really are very good. You'll see, in about 10 months.

We worked almost non-stop and I didn't have time to pull out my camera – except one morning. These pallets outside, near where Lynn parks, looked really good to me. All those lovely lines… they're a good inspiration for quilted lines. 

I'm in Newport Beach now, in an amazing hotel near the John Wayne airport (the Ayres Hotel). Really, this room is fantastic! The furniture is lovely, the bathroom is full of marble and is really clean (always a plus). There's a jacuzzi tub but I don't think I'm going there. No time to sit and soak. The art throughtout is nice – reproductions of old masters-looking paintings in what looks like actual oil paint. They are surely prints, but not bad at all.

Tomorrow it's back to work. I teach first for the Flying Geese Quilt Guild. I hope to find time to post. It's not always possible, but I'll try!