I try to focus on work on travel days. I'm away from home with fewer distractions and I can often get something done on the computer. Unless I get distracted :-).

I just got an email from TED and this talk was at the top of the page. I've read about Apollo Robbins and seen a video of him before and he is always entertaining. This talk was especially interesting to me because he's talking about what we notice (and don't notice) and how easily distracted we are.

I gave the same color lecture three times in Canada. It changes a bit each time but the core information remains the same. One thing I emphasize is that we notice contrast, what is different. I give ideas about how that works in quilts. I need to think about how to add what I just learned in this TED talk – there is so very much that we don't notice, even when we think we are being observant.

FYI – The weather turned lovely, cool and crisp again, on my last day in Canada and it is the same in Detroit. I hope it's cooler in Texas as well – but I'm not holding my breath. It's likely to be October before we see weather this cool and clear. But – we don't get feet of snow either so I am not going to complain.