What a Trip!

Many of you know that I travel with MJ Keating each June on her Women's Hiking Trip.  In the past four years I've visited places I've dreamed of and never heard of.  Ability to hike is not an issue, lucky me!  While MJ has nearly 20 years of these tours I'm still a novice, but earning my stripes.  Each trip has presented an inspiration for my quilting and sewing.  Mother Nature does wondrous work.  2014 was to Mesa Verde and Ouray, Colorado. 

 These two pictures, more rock and trees, are in South Dakota!

Can't say I found New Hampshire, 2014 trip, all that inspiring, but it was beautiful.  This year's trip was to Hocking Hills, Ohio, south and east of Columbus.  The flora was exquisite!  On the first day we stopped at the Toledo Botanical Gardens and on the stop on the way home was the Ann Arbor Botanical Gardens.  In Ann Arbor, my friend and roomie, Robin G and I played with our phone cameras and kaleidoscopes hovering over a simple pot of grass(real grass not the other kind) and a coleus plant.

Tonight is the Stitched Studio Beehive night! It should be fun.  Will update you later!

Since canning season has begun here's a pattern for a bag  to share your home made treasures in from Sew Mama Sew.