Long Time, no POST!!!

Happy Hallowe'en , everyone! I am disguised as the World's WORST Blogger tonight, wearing a large sparkly acid green and black sequined SPIDER on my jade green sweatshirt!  That otta fool them! The goodies are in two bowls at the front door and we await the little Trick or Treaters:-)

I have not blogged. I have not Fibre Arted. I HAVE photographed a LOT in between trips to the hospital with Mum who had a fall a couple of weeks ago (fortunately nothing broken!) and appointments for DH who has had more than his share of frustration lately. 'Nuff said. He has been quite miserable. Things begin to look up now- we HOPE! I have just been waiting and worrying or else trotting off to appointments.

I AM getting ready, ITCHY even,  to do some new work though. I am thinking in light of Christmas being so near and we HOPE to visit DD before that, that I will just make preparations and not actually start until the New Year. That way, I will have one fewer messes to clean up before Christmas.

Here are my Hallowe'en photos. I have not carved this pumpkin with the gorgeous handle. I am going to poke and slash it a little and hope that the squirrels will do the rest and I will then get GOOD pics for NEXT Hallowe'en!

Not very trad pumpkin photos but when was I trad??

I belong to a little Flickr group called  Macro Mondays and their theme this week is Shadows in keeping with Hallowe'en

My Catrina doll's "face" close up!

I HAVE been celebrating the beauty of Autumn too . It has actually been a pretty colourful fall here.

Before anyone asks and in case you did not know- Goldenrod galls! Aren't they beautiful!

There you are. A smattering. If you are interested in seeing more try ...
carolynn.mcmillan@yahoo.com. That is my Flickr site. There are LOTS of REAL photographers posting on Flickr. Check out some of the people who have commented on my pics. Some are AMAZING!!! I think that when Tuesday comes, I will post this to the needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com despite the lack of needle OR thread just to show that I am still in the land of the living.

I wish you all the happiest of Hallowe'ens and hope it was all treats and only fun tricks! 

Happy Thanksgiving- slightly past tense

Greetings to all of my kind readers. I wanted to wish you all a VERY Happy Thanksgiving, 2015. Despite the prevalence of so many sad and horrific stories in the world these days, there is MUCH to be thankful for in each of our lives. I, personally , am blessed with good health, a wonderful family, a BEAUTIFUL young Grandboy (coming up to 20 months) . My Mum is joining us for supper tonight . She is 95 and really quite well - although shaky on her feet and a little forgetful. I am very thankkful and LUCKY to still have my Mum!

Here is beautiful Indian Corn which will decorate our Thanksgiving Table

One wish for you all is a table that always welcomes friends and family and that always has enough good food  on it.

Euonymus Alata

And I hope that there is beauty in your lives and that you spend time actively seeking, enjoying and sharing it!

Sumac

Monkshood or Aconitum Napellus

Have a very Happy Thanksgiving. Stay well and enjoy the lovely Autumn colours and weather. And...


                                                   DON'T FORGET TO VOTE !


I am now going to post this to the needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com Sorry you could not have had my good wishes yesterday but they are equally sincerely wished today! Happy Thanksgiving just past!

Show's over, Folks!

****BEST NEWS THIS WEEK!! I AM HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL AND THE DR ONLY INJECTED MY HAND WITH CORTISONE INSTEAD OF DOING THE SURGERY . It will need doing some time , but he says not yet!! Yay!!! Escaped :-)***

The Trunk Show is finished and if I say so myself, finished successfully :-) I was very pleased and my audience seemed pleased as well. I showed 35 quilts and spoke on the age old question, "where do you get your ideas??" Here is the clutter STILL on the dining room table, waiting to be packed up and put away.

 Just a sampling of the top layer. You have seen them all but it does make a colourful start to my post this week!

 I have been preparing for today for a long time. This is F day!! FINGER Day- I HOPE!!! My appointment is at 12:15 PM and I hope Dr G is in top form today and that he sees fit to Fix the aforementioned finger!!!

 In the meantime, I have been taking a LOT of pretty cool photos because I cannot cut fabric right now. We went out looking for good Ontario Farms yesterday. It was a beautiful day and we were out all afternoon- 136 km, I think DH told me! He IS a good and patient man.  Here is a sampling...

A lovely long line of mature maples marks this farm lane. For folks who've never visited Ontario, this is a VERY typical look.

Corn ( fodder and/or for Ethanol) is EVERYWHERE. 

I LOVE the "corduroy" rows of crops!

More Corduroy corn rows.

A clump of wild sunflowers whose particular name I do not know but what a jolly sight!

Guess where THIS is headed when it grows up???

And as many ripening soybean fields as cornfields. The beautiful pale copper of ripe soybeans is not quite here yet!

A gorgeous protected turtle pond we pass frequently. There is a n old log, partly submerged in the mud where I have often seen MANY turtles of varying sizes sitting in the sun . There were TWO today but by the time I got the camera set up, BOTH had quietly slipped into the water :-(

And once again, Guess What THIS is heading for?? Have I mentioned how much I love fences and fenceposts ;-)

Well, folks, soon time to make lunch and be off to the hospital so I will post this now and set it up for the needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com for later this afternoon. There is some interesting stuff on my Flickr this week too if you are interested. Carolynn McMillan on Flickr in google will get to it.  Enjoy TNTN and this post ( I hope) and take care.

Trunk Show

I have the Trunk Show all organized and ready to go! Always a big job but I DO love "preaching the Fibre Art Gospel"! I have 33 quilts all numbered and in order and I am speaking on Inspiration and Motivation. How many times have YOU been asked, "where do you get your ideas from?" Man! Ideas are the least of my problems :-) I feel very fortunate to almost never run out of inspiration. I am so glad of my camera and so VERY glad that I seem to have an eye for something that would make an interesting quilt. As I have been working through my photos and taking new ones too, I realize that I have a number that COULD make very cool little quilts- kind of abstract ones. Abstract is rarely "my thing" . Non objective almost NEVER is. Look what I have found as I have been editing...

Water droplets on a Smokebush Leaf

Berberis in the Rain

Torn- or CHEWED edge of a Heuchera Leaf

Macro of a Heuchera bloom

Salsify Seed 

and another...

and another!

Lots of Reflections

Perilla Leaves 

And some more- different treatment

Poppy closeup

Smokebush Leaves - I have many shots 

Coneflower centre

Part of a daylily

More of a daylily

Serviceberry leaves 

And more Serviceberry

And one last Smokebush shot- MANY more will come as the season progresses.

Now, I certainly will NOT use all of these and the ones I DO use may be somewhat altered from what you see here. This is only a smattering. I just do NOT run out of inspiration. What I DO run out of is time and energy- and coordination in my silly right, son to be fixed- I HOPE hand!!!!!

I had planned to post this LAST week on TNTN but didn't find the time so here it is now and I have new stuff for this week. HOPING to have my hand fixed at noon today! Stay tuned!

Hah! I believe that as there are not too many posts this week, I SHALL post this to the needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com. It says some things I really wanted to say so, please forgive, but here is last week's unposed TNTN post! Enjoy??