We've been doing some fall yard clean-up, so many of my summer flowers (like the petunias in pots) have been ripped out. But the big pot of marigolds is still going strong - they're a good fall flower! I like to leave them in there so they'll re-seed themselves for next year.
On a little hike in Oregon we came across this pretty grove of purple flowers. I used the Google Lens feature in Photos to identify them and it called them sea asters.
A favorite event of mine to go and walk through was taking place last weekend. It's called "Pastels on 5th Street" and is a fundraiser for our local domestic violence organization. We go to this every year because the art is so fun to see, and it's always interesting to see the artists at work, too.
I think this was my favorite.
And loved the fall tree, too.
A whole block of artists!
LeeAnna's question of the week is about school supplies - and, of course, loving school and always wanting to be a teacher, those were always very important to me. But I don't remember shopping for them as a kid at all. I think maybe they were supplied by the schools in our town back then? Not sure. But I definitely do remember shopping for them with my own kids, and that was a big deal! They were in school in the 90s - and the "Trapper Keeper" was very popular! I can remember that teachers didn't like them very much because they were big and didn't fit in the kids' desks, but the kids loved them! Go figure!
In my years as a teacher, I shopped for lots of school supplies because lots of kids came without them. When places like Walmart or Office Depot had things on sale, I would go and buy as many as I could to give out to my students when they needed something. Nowadays my favorite "school supply" is my spiral notebook full of graph paper. It's been great for planning out quilt designs that I want to make.
I made this String Star in 2018.
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