Colorado Trip....

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Our first two days in Colorado were Heath's days off, so he took us sightseeing and hiking all over the Eagle, CO area.
The rest of the week Brad and I have been exploring on our own, then meeting up with Heath for dinner in the evenings.

More To Come..... 

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,
LuAnn Kessi
 

Heath....working in Colorado

For all you Quilters out there...
I will be blogging about our Colorado trip for a few days,
so these will be Non-Quilt related posts.

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Heath is working for Parks & Rec for the Forest Service in Colorado this summer. I took this photo last week up at White Owl where he was building picnic tables at an elevation of 11,000 feet.

The skies are so gorgeous here.

More to come..... 

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,
LuAnn Kessi

Rocky Mountain High....we reached Colorado

We are visiting our son in Colorado. He is an intern here for the Forest Service for the summer. Our Oregon mountains back home look like mere hills compared to the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. This image is Heath, Brad & Gunnr in White Owl at an elevation of over 11,000 feet. Click image to Enlarge.

My sketch book is full of images of the mountains, aspen trees, lakes, valleys, wild flowers and so much inspiration for a new landscape quilt I will begin when we return to Oregon.

I did get to Golden Colorado earlier last week to visit the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum...

I am using Brad's laptop, which is nothing like my sweet Mac computer at home, so I am struggling downloading and editing our travel photos. I will post more images as time allows.

Hoping to take my Paul Harvey quilt hiking tomorrow, so I can get a few photos of Paul in this gorgeous Rocky Mountain country. 

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,
LuAnn Kessi

Inspiration.....from the Flower Bed

When I am in need of inspiration for my next quilt,

I count on help from Mother Nature.

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Climbing Rose in the back yard

Pink Dahlia...

Glads & Dahlias

Bed Frames make great fencing for the flower beds

Spider Dahlia

Old Fashioned Hollyhocks

All of this inspiration just outside the front door !

As always, if you are inspired by any of my photography,

feel free to use it in your personal art work.

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CLICK HERE to view Iris Portrait Quilt

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full of Inspiration,

LuAnn Kessi

Trunk Show.....

If you missed my Trunk Show

25 Years with Needle & Thread

at the Mary's River Quilt Guild

in Philomath, Oregon...

You can watch the slide show from that evening:

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Sun Printing Workshop...

15 Students spent the day in the back yard

painting fabric and sun printing..

Watch the slide show to see how our day went:

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Falling into Place...

After a month of battling with rainy weather

and mechanical break downs,

we are making progress in the hay fields.

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View from the back door...

This hay field is just across the river.

You can see the tractor parked with our neighbor's

round baler behind it.

(our baler has not been repaired from the fire yet)

Lots of big 6 foot round bales ready to be stored away

for the winter cow feed.

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After a long day of baling hay, Brad crossed the river on foot

and came up into the back yard and cooked steaks

over a campfire for all of us.

The yearling cattle just can't resist coming up to the fence

to see what's going on in the yard.

Gerber Daisy

Star Lily

I have been spending time in the Thread Shed,

but I haven't been quilting...

I gathered up quilts and prepared lecture notes

for my Trunk Show at the

Mary's River Quilt Guild

Thursday, July 28 7 pm

Benton County Museum

1101 Main Street

Philomath, Oregon

The pick up is all loaded with quilts!

I hope to see you soon...

If you can't make the Trunk Show

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn