“I wonder what it would be like....

....to live in a world where it was always June.”

L.M. Montgomery

How perfect that would be - June has it all...warm, but not too warm...soft nights that cool...everything bursting into glorious bloom...

Sigh...

The Alaskan grown peonies are putting on quite a show right now...how I love the Coral Sunset that starts out so vibrant and then gently fades to light peach...

The Coral Charm is deeper in color...

My old fashioned Wisconsin-grown peonies are huge this year in delicate pinks...

I must enjoy them now for soon they will drop their petals and prepare for next year’s cycle...

Meanwhile a small sense of accomplishment on finishing the 1st block of Rowdy Flat Library Quilt...(must do some “fine tuning” before a better pressing)

Just had to introduce her to the garden as the colors echo some of my fabric palette...

Tiny dragonflies and if you look closely, a minute bird...

Prepping the 2nd block now...lots of little bees in a circle on this one...when my hands are not in the gardens, they itch to choose fabric and try to meet the challenge of tiny appliques...

All for now from Taylorsoutback...the bees are buzzing outside too and calling my name...

Wishing each of you a lovely day where ever you are...

Pat

Odds and ends...

....actually, more odds than ends...no finishes and it is going to be while before a completed quilt shows up on this blog. Summers, here in Wisconsin, like many other places is all about the outdoors and that is where you will usually find me. It feels like with the beginning of gardening season in mid-May, by the time everything is planted and a person begins to clean up winter debris and newly emerging weeds, the summer is almost gone and you are starting all over again. My goal has always been to have everything neat and tidy by early June...wishful thinking...maybe next year??? So for now, we enjoy...

Forget-me-nots...

The Prairie Fire tree in full bloom...

Young green onions from thinnings in the garden...

And a stunning double rainbow over our pond after a recent storm passed through...

(Photo by our son, David Taylor)

When night falls and I return to inside, a few quilt blocks finally get attention...

June’s offering from the Cheddarback BOM over at Gay’s Sentimental Stitches are complete - surprised myself, it is only the 16th.

And the first block of my Rowdy Flat Library quilt is getting close to completion, which is a good thing because Block #2 is winging its way somewhere over the Pacific from Australia and should arrive soon...

We took the 5th wheel up to Negaunee in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan recently. Mr. Outback had a skeet shoot and when I wasn’t visiting with friends and catching up with everyone, my dear little Featherweight, Adelia, hummed along making more HST’s for the Tree of Life quilt. (I want to think Adelia was happy to be working and also being returned to the town where she was discovered in an antique shop a few years back.)

The box of HST’s grows...

And that is about it at Taylorsoutback for now...filled with odds and ends - mostly odds, but still a feeling of accomplishment while savoring the month of June...

Wishing each of you lovely moments in the week ahead...

Pat