Around Here and a *Friendship*

Every year at the end of March we visit the Dixon Botanical Gardens to enjoy the display of colorful tulips. We are lucky to have such a place in the city we live in Tennessee.

They worked very hard during the Fall months planting over 2,000 bulbs.

You could find a variety of colors and types. Some are taller, some shorter, some has more than one color in the petals and others looks like has been made of a velvety fabric with rich dark tones. 

This year they made a little cabin with straw roof and lots of vases full of tulip blooms for walls.

These figures were standing or sitting all over the grounds. They were displayed in pairs. 

What a fun and relaxing day I had with friends!

On my previous POST I mentioned the latest article I wrote for the American Magazine Quilting Arts. This particular issue is very special to me  because I am with my friend Chris in the same issue! 

What are the odds? We met online over 10 years ago, then she was my student and we became friends. We haven't met in person but feels like it. She has a fun and bright spirit. When we learn we where going to be together she had the brilliant idea to send each other a signed copy and that's what we did!

She is a wonderful artist. She took this photograph, manipulated and enhanced it with colored pencils. 

I hope you are enjoying the changes of the new Season wherever you are.