Chalk Walk

Every year the city has a chalk art "festival" on Main Street. After dinner tonight, Ron, L, and I took a walk down Main to see the works. The sad thing this year was that it has been raining and so most of the really good pieces had been covered up with plastic to keep the rain off.

Earlier in the day, L's class took a walking field trip to see the art. There is a place along Main where they have sidewalk chalk out for you to make your own piece. Here is the masterpiece that L and his friends put together. Sadly, a cloud burst this afternoon washed it out a little bit.

Maybe we'll have to walk back by tomorrow and see if they uncover the rest...

Jacksonville Florida

I went to Jacksonville Florida this week for work. What an adventure! We flew through Atlanta on the way there and back. It really made me appreciate the fact that I live in the desert! With 81 degrees (not too bad) and 76% humidity (really bad), I felt less than fresh even though we were only there for a short time. Florida wasn't quite as humid, but still a little too sticky for me.

Here is the view from my hotel window looking out across the St. John river:

After dinner the first night, Brian and I walked down to the river walk for a few minutes.

The next day in our meetings, they told us that the river walk was nice in the day, but told us that it wasn't any where you wanted to be at night. I guess it was a good thing that we went back to our hotel before it got too dark! um...scary!

So...let me share the scariest part of the trip. It wasn't the new foods I tried like grits, clam bellies, conch fritters, etc. It wasn't the fact that when we walked to our car the second night you could hear the alligators "quacking." It wasn't even the fact that we barely made our connecting flight from Atlanta to Salt Lake City. What was the scariest part of the entire trip was sitting in a meeting and wondering if this guy was going to fly across the room and land on my head!

I'm thinking this is their state bird!

Quilt #2

I made it through my second quilt. This one went to Miss Hannah for her birthday last week. I have three other quilt tops ready to quilt, but I think I will be taking a little break so that I can get some OUTSIDE things done. I love that I can say that! I'm so sick of being stuck inside watching it rain outside.

Alright...here is the Hannah quilt.

This is the fabric label on the back.

Front side...

Back side...

I chose these colors because not only are they the colors of the Red Rocks, the are the colors of Hannah's gym too. Happy birthday, Hannah!