Joe and I spent the first day of the New Year 2016 with our girls on the Outer Banks.
Ahhhhhhh! The best place on earth just to sew and chillax.
On Sunday, we headed to Lewes, Delaware. I love the beach. Lewes is a beach town, therefore, I love Lewes. Love the beach, the great shopping, the fabulous restaurants and the excellent quilters! I gave a lecture and workshop for the Ocean Waves Quilt Guild. What a fantastic group. They are lucky to have Ginny as one of their officers as working with her was wonderful. To learn more visit their website at: http://oceanwavesquiltguild.org/ .
I have taught many, many times in the Lewes area and one of my former students, a member of the guild, Lucy Morgan, brought her finished Magical Medallions Quilt to show me. The quilt is stunning. Great job Lucy!!
Here are some of the ladies from the guild
And we were grateful to have Skip as a member who did such a good job helping Joe display the quilts during the lecture. Thanks Skip!
The next morning on our way to my workshop, we noticed these beautiful white birds landing in a field. Luckily Joe had his camera.
I had never seen snow geese, but now understand that Delaware in and around Lewes is a stopping point for a many migrating birds.
We saw a few, then more
and still more
Until the entire field was covered with thousands of the snow geese
Even when Joe put on his wide angle lens he could not get them all
We watched and listened to their songs of happiness as they picked away in the field.
Then in a second, with the whooping sound of ten helicopters,
They all rose
and rose, then headed south
Truly a wonder to witness.
I’ll have a few book reviews the week after next, because I am heading out to Hawaii this evening with my sister Paula. We have never done a sister trip and we are spending a week on Kauai so I will not be writing until my return.
Aloha!