January 01, 2013

 

I didn't think I had much to post about,

until I imported the pictures from my camera.

Should do it more often!

 

 

I'll begin with the most recent.

Anxious to see my first bird of the New Year,

I headed out the door this morning

to a birdless yard.

 

Thinking maybe the birds had celebrated too late
into the wee hours of the morning,

or were kept awake by all the fireworks,

I studied the trees,

and then I spotted the reason....

 

 

 

Never very confident in my hawk identification,

I've narrowed this handsome devil down to

either a Cooper's Hawk, who is here in S. Texas year round,

 or a Sharp-shinned Hawk, here during the winter.

He seemed to be pretty big.

 

 

 

Here he is, flying away.

 

One of the first little birdies to venture out after the hawk scare

was this sweet Carolina Wren.

 

 

 

 

Not a bad start to the New Birding Year,

OR to my Texas Yard Bird List!

 

I'm just now getting my sewing area set up.

I've been pretty busy since arriving in TX on 12/15.

Crafty Daughter had a birthday cookie order for us to work on.

 

Cows, of all things.

 

 

 

 

I just snapped a few quick, unstaged photos. 

(You can see that one is on a stick.

We attempted our first cookie bouquet.)

 

 

 

 

Then we moved on to Christmas cookies,

 

 

 

 

and had lots of fun experimenting with

the different cookie cutters we'd collected.

 

 

 

 

I always describe this areas as being within the northern fringe

of South Texas, and was surprised when a neighbor

invited us over to pick grapefruit.

 

 

 

She was away when we passed out Christmas cookie plates

to all the neighbors,

so she's getting a special plate

of New Years cookies.

 

 

 

 

Oh, my, this is becoming too long.

Well, down to business.  The purpose of posting today

is to link up with Carrie from A Passion for Applique.

 

 

Just choose three (3) UFO's a month

post about them,

and link up with Carrie.

 

1.  A Christmas Table Topper that never got finished

before I started my migration.

(At least I brought it with me!)

 

2.  A baby quilt that I've been handquilting since I left

Cape Breton.  The baby has just been born and is only in Houston!

 

 

 

 

  

3.  Crafty Daughter wants a small bag to wear for work.

She picked out the focal fabric.
This hasn't been started, but it's a UFO
because she asked for it last summer!

 

 

 

Stop by A Passion for Applique to say hello,

and to check out some of the links!!

 

Okay, I'm finished!

 

Whew!