Today we chose to do a loop hike around Mt. Erie. We started at Heart lake.
We walked around the lake and joined the trail that led us across the road, so we could hike around Mt. Erie.
An interesting mushroom along the trail.
We spied a happy face place in the root of a fallen tree.
A close up of the happy face.
An interesting place for a mushroom to grow from, don't you think?!
More mushrooms growing on a log.
I'm standing by this large Douglas fir tree to show just how wide the trunk of the tree is. There are some very large old trees in the forest near Heart lake.
These interesting mushrooms were growing on the side of a tree.
Just after crossing the road there is a wonderful rock area where water drips off onto the Maidenhair ferns growing along the trail.
Looking back at the rocks and the Maidenhair ferns.
Some delicate fall color near the rock wall.
Ferns galore along the trail❤
Madrona, yes spelled with an "a", you can read about the tree and the differing views about its' spelling HERE. Anyway......the Madrona trees lined the trail, adding some contrasting color to the green forest.
Just to the right of the trees in the above photo was this wonderful large Madrona growing out at an angle from the others.
The trail was covered in leaves. I loved the soft yellow leaves on the tree just in front of the grey rock.
When we got to this bench we sat and ate our lunch.
After lunch we continued our way around Mt. Erie. The ferns were abundant under the trees and along the trail. The last of the fall colored leaves peeked here and there through the fir trees.
I saw this slug about two feet up on the side of a tree. Mt. Erie is known as a rock climbing area, here is a link with the routes & climbing info. at Mt. Erie: https://www.mountainproject.com/area/106413714/mount-erie). I had no idea that the slugs aspired to be climbers here as well😉
We walked over to the last view area of the loop, where there is a nice view of Lake Campbell. There was a wonderful line of trees down by the lake all dressed in their red fall finery.
Our last trail junction sign and a good downhill grade before ending at the parking lot at Heart lake across the road.
The map of our route shows that Heart lake is indeed shaped like a heart. It's upside down but still a heart❤.
"Oeuvre" (the works of a painter, composer, or author regarded collectively: "the complete oeuvre of Mozart" a work of art, music, or literature: "an early oeuvre" ORIGIN late 19th cent.: French, literally ‘work.’ - Oxford Dictionary.)
Wow, it's been two years since I did a post about THIS quilt. Oh well, progress has happened. I'm sewing this quilt completely with my Singer 66 treadle machine. I finally figured out the treadle motion. I really enjoy my "unplugged" time at this machine.
I'm glad I found a chart on-line that shows the fabric with it's numbers. I was given this quilt kit with the instructions and fabrics but no "key" to know how to label the fabrics. Labeling each one of the fabrics is very important with this one. As there is a certain pattern the designer wants the fabric colors to be placed. So after finding the key info. I set out to pin the ID numbers to each of the fabrics.
Each time a strip was cut from a fabric an ID number had to be pinned to that as well. The photo below shows some of the cut out strips, sewn together strip blocks and some long strips: sewn but not yet cut.
Which brings me to today's update. All of the blocks have been prepared and now I can start assembling the quilt.
The white looking block is a background block. It's shown in the center of the above photo and it isn't a solid color, it's called "Cream Prairie flowers". There is a very light floral design on it as you can see here:
