Sharing Images and Videos...

Images and Videos

to share with you today...

Foxgloves grow wild along

the fence lines of the hay fields

and pastures...

Foxgloves

California Poppies

growing in the back yard.

Enjoy these Bear trail cam videos:

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

Trail Camera.....Bear Video

Whenever we run out of water at the house...

We know the water line Bear is back again...

We decided to set up a trail camera to see

just what the Bear is doing...

Here he has the water line in his teeth...

In the video:

He spends time rubbing his back side 

on a tree trunk,

He rolls around with the water line 

between his feet,

He eventually breaks the water line in two and

is delighted when water splashes out at him.

So glad we set up the trail camera...

this Bear is delightful and entertaining.

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LuAnn Kessi

Sunset @ Island Park...

I have been stitching away on this quilt for the last few weeks in between trips back and forth to the cow barns to check on the cows and calves...

The Cowboy surprised me with this

Bear Quilt kit

55 x 55 inches

I rarely work from a kit....I enjoyed the convenience of having everything I needed in 

one little package.

Last weekend I put it under the needle of the Sweet 16 and finished the machine quilting.  I matched my thread colors so I would not distract from the simplicity of the design.  It is heavily quilted, but you can't see it the photo.

Last evening I stitched the 

binding and hanging sleeve...

As soon as I cut the thread, 

the Cowboy hung it on the wall 

in the living room.  

It is a memory quilt of the wonderful summer we spent in Island Park, Idaho.  Each evening we would leave our campsite to chase the sunset and capture it with the camera lens.

Other than the 80 2 inch bias squares for the bear paw blocks, this was a simple quilt that I enjoyed putting together and a nice distraction from all the mud and rain the last few weeks.

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LuAnn Kessi

On the Road…

We are on the road again…..

traveling from Oregon to Wyoming

These are my personal images.

If you are inspired by them, you are welcome to 

use them in your personal art work

Be sure to double click to enlarge images:

I always travel with my Paul Harvey Quilt….

and my favorite guy and…...Gunnr

We are looking for Grizzly Bears this trip…

in the Tetons….

Yes, we found the grizzlies!

We traveled through Jackson Hole, Wyoming

The Tetons

We saw Moose in Moose, Wyoming

Moose Calf

We took our traveling house everywhere we went

Gunnr spent his time hanging out the window looking for buffalo

Yellowstone Elk

Deer

We chased the moon too!

Breakfast in the Tetons

Mormon barns in the Tetons

5:30 am……waiting for the sunrise to hit the barn

Morning Glory Pool

Here we are waving from the pool

I am so inspired by our trip…

I am ready to create some photo quilts!

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi

What A Beauty

Brad came in this morning from the hen house and told me we had a visitor. A beautiful, and un-welcome visitor. I grabbed the camera and headed outside in my jammies. A chicken hawk had made it's way into the wire fenced chicken yard, and now he was trapped inside. Here he is hanging on his side on the wire. The underside of his wing is white and brown checked. You can see it fairly well in this photo. Click image to enlarge and see more detail. Tip your head to the left and you can see him better.

The hens did not like him one bit and would charge at him with their neck feathers all ruffled out. He flew around the fenced in chicken yard looking for a way out.

He sat still long enough for me to get a close up photo.....below.

Right after this photo was taken, Brad opened the hen house door and he flew inside the hen house and out the door to freedom. We watched him fly away down to the river. He perched in a tree and stared at us.........and we stared back. What a beauty!

If I can't be sewing or quilting, then I want to be gardening. We planted 3 Burning Bushes by the garage today. Someday they will really put on a show in the fall.

This little bear was found at a second hand store over the winter months. He weighs better than 50 pounds! He has such a beautiful patina. He is quite old, but still in great condition. He is perfect to watch over the newly planted bushes.

The yellow Thread Shed is directly behind the bear.

To the right is the red hen house, where the chicken hawk was trapped earlier.

The camelia by the Thread Shed is beginning to bloom.

The daffodils out front are the biggest and tallest and brightest we've ever had!

Spring has arrived in Oregon..........what a beauty!

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From The Garden,

LuAnn