monday, monday.....

besides being a fabric junkie, a piecing nut and all a-round gal...me and my sweetie are train brains. i am a bit picky and prefer live steam locomotives but anything that runs on the tracks makes mark smile. i admit, i love trains of all kinds too but LOVE steam. anywho...i found this kool site today that is giving away an awesome quilt. her name is camille and like she didnt have enough to do raising two young boys, she decided to start her own little pattern company. after her first year of success she is giving away this beautiful little gem called "blossom". go to her site to enter and if you add her url to your blog you get three more entries. kool huh?!! so here it is:
web.mac.com/cjroskelley
i love the hard wood trees here. i have never lived where it was mostly hardwoods...mostly conifers. now wait a minute...koa is a hard wood and so is milo and primavera...have to amend that statement. hardwoods like maple and that kind of stuff. our neighbor, paulie, tapped his maples and made syrup which he gave us some and we put on our french toast on sunday. it was soooooooooo good, had a very slight smokey flavor but not enough to distract you from the shere maple bliss. the trees are getting leaflets...from a distance the forest is evergreen green with patches of grey...i thought the new leaf growth would be green but i guess that is how it is. i hope the snow of the last few days hasnt damaged them. my fuchsias are anxious to get outside but i am going to be darn sure no more FROST before i put those babies out. already had one blossom and the other has three buds. they are straining for the window, let us outside they cry...silly plants, they will go out as soon as it is warm enough and then the humingbirds will have fresh nector (plus the feeders). good luck on the quilt drawing...........