Winter Wonderland

Woke up this morning to lots and lots of snow.   It does look like a wonderland, until it needs to be cleared from your path and driveway.  I am sure it is at least 18 - 24 inches deep in my garden, forecast is for more to come down during the next 24 hours.  In my opinion it is much too early in the season for all this snow.

Just read, via FB that some of the larger retail stores and a well know fast food restaurant in our city are closed....gotta know there is a lot of snow out there when that happens as they do not want to loose $$'s especially at this time of the year. 

At the moment I am a prisoner in my home,  can't open any of the doors, blocked with this white stuff,  so guess I will just have to stay in and sew.....   Yaaaaay  a Snow day is a Sew Day.  Several projects I have are WIP's so there will be plenty to keep me busy.  I will turn on some music, make a pot of tea and get busy.


Patricia

Quiltinggrammy.....

Received your comment, I have updated my e-mail, so it should work,  (she says with fingers crossed).lol
I have also tried to contact you via your e-mail, however, having issues doing it through blogger.
If you leave another comment and give me your e-mail address, (I will not publish) I will contact you through the usual channels.


Thanks.


Patrica

Emeral Isle #2....

A lone boat in the harbour of the fishing village of  Waterville.






Scenery during our coast ride to the Cliffs of Moher.







Cliffs of Moher

Another view of the cliffs at Moher.

The Killary.. Ireland's only fjord.

A "photo op" on our drive to Ballymena, Northern Ireland.  Can you see the white section of land in the distance.  It is our destination for the night and it is bathed in sunlight.  It looks like an iceberg doesn't it.


These photo's and the ones on a previous post of only a few of the many I took during my visit to Ireland.  It is a beautiful island, would love to go back and visit, and  choose an area  in which to stay for a longer period of time to explore the hidden gems not normally seen by the many tourists.



Patricia


P.S. Click on the photo's to enlarge.

Around the Emerald Isle....#1 Photo Heavy.

This little fellow brought back some memories.

Yours truly on my way to Blarney Castle to kiss the stone.   Yes, I did!

 During our travels around the island we were told about the digging, drying and storing of peat, which is used to heat the local homes.  We made a stop on the side of the road to see this process, I just had to snap this photo.

A photo "op" stop on our way to Kylemore Abbey.

These beautiful blooms were in the gardens of Kylemore Abbey, does anyone know their name.

This was also in the gardens of the Abbey, never seen anything like this before.  The leaves were the shape of holly with these orange and yellow trumpet shaped flowers.  Anyone know what this is?

Patricia

Beautiful Ireland

In between doing the loads of laundry,  I have downloaded the photo's from my trip.   A total of 571 pictures will allow me to relive all of the beautiful places I have visited during the past two weeks.  Don't worry I will not be showing that many, however, over the next few days I will show  just a few of my favourite ones.  That will be a difficult task as so many really turned out well, even if I do say so myself.

For my quilting friends, the floor of the 12th century St. Patrick Cathedral in Dublin. Click on the photo's to enlarge.

Kilkenny Castle

 

Patricia

 

 

 

Home...

After having two wonderful weeks in Ireland, I am now home and ready for bed, jet lag is setting in.


Good night. 

A little bit of this and that....

Summer is winding down, however, you wouldn't think so from the sunny weather and warm temperatures we have had during the past couple of days.  The nights have been cool with some frost on the roof tops of the houses in my neighbourhood.  Summer flowers in the garden are looking tired and beginning to prepare themselves for the colder weather ahead.  However, a few mums, sedum and asters are still providing some colour.   Autumn will soon be here, then the  maple trees will be changing into their glorious reds, oranges and yellows.  A lovely time of the year.  Then the leaves fall and we are left with the naked branches, until they are again clothed, oh no!!! with snow.    

Very little sewing has been done during the past couple of  months.   I had intended to take my sewing machine outside on my back deck and do some stitching there during July and August but that never happened, too many other things to do.  I have many UFO's that need my attention and ideas for future projects, so need to get organized.

 But first..... I am taking myself on another trip,  so will be AWOL for awhile.  Coming back refueled and ready to start in that sewing room again.  A lot of stitching needs to be done before Christmas.

A blog I follow is posted by a woman who works very hard to save so that she and her dh can travel.  She recently posted photos of an earlier trip they took which showed the older Panama City, it is a beautiful place.  Lovely memories.  In 2006 dh and I took a cruise to the Panama Canal.   A tour bus  to Panama City gave us a brief visit and taking photo's through the windows was impossible to do the city  justice.  So thought I would show a couple of pictures that I was able to take.  
                                         

The skyline of the modern Panama City.

Those of you that follow my blog know I love flowers, so had to show you some, of course.  I was told at the time this was an Orchid  Tree.  They were lovely.

 

Patricia