Poodles and Quilts

This is our last day here until the next visit early in 2019. It has been a good trip. A drizzly day today although Galen did go out this morning for a little while. This afternoon we decided to go for an early mid-afternoon dinner. Went to Daddy's. We have both been hungry for scallops. And we did enjoy them along with the margaritas, cold boiled shrimp and sides. We did skip dessert! We decided to make one last stop at the convention center to see what was flying! Turns out it was a good idea.                                                        Female Hooded Warbler Grey Cat Bird Black Throat Green Warbler Great Blue heron Great Blue heron hiding in the grasses Roseate Spoonbill Roseate Spoonbill, Black neck Stilts and Mottled ducks Roseate Spoonbills Short - billed Dowitcher ...

 I think they are all labeled correctly. Galen will correct me if not! Galen goes to the birding center in the mornings then we either go to the convention center grounds in the afternoon or take a drive.                              Immature Tennessee Warbler   SPI Convention Center grounds                            Reddish Egret-SPI Convention Center grounds boardwalk American Oyster catcher-Zapata Boat Ramp Laughing Gull-Zapata Boat Ramp Short- Billed Dowitcher -Zapata Boat Ramp Black Neck Stilts-Zapata Boat Ramp Great Blue Heron - Pier 19 SPI Willets-Pier 19 SPI Jack Rabbit-SPI Convention Center Grounds                                         ...

We are in South Padre right now. Not spectacular weather wise-no fantastic sunsets or sunrises this trip. In fact non to speak of unless we see something tonight or tomorrow! But only one day where we pretty much stayed in the motel. Galen has been able to go across the street and get a lot of pictures of birds, especially warblers. Some were new lifers for him. the ones we came to find that were usually not in this part of Texas were chased out by the weather front that arrived when we did. So we missed out on those.  We did however have an Eastern Whip-Poor-Will  in the grassy area by our motel. Galen took a picture and we discovered he was still there the next day. He was hurt, think he had a hurt wing. Galen knows someone who works at the SPI Birding and Nature Center just across the street. He came and got the bird. It spent the night on the Island then the next day it went to the raptor rehabilitation center at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville.      ...

It has been a busy month putting blocks into quilts to be sent to Quilts of Compassion for their deployment to the Carolinas later this year. Got the quilts together that have been ready for just such a need. Those are off to the group now. About the middle of the month I found a 140 blocks from various swaps over the years-string blocks. They were 7.5 inches square.                          These have since been made into 4 quilts of 35 blocks each. As soon as I get these back from my wonderful quilted they will also be headed to Quilts of Compassion along with some from friends. Yes, am keeping Kerry @ tincanquilting.com busy! I am part of a small group of quilting friends that have become very close. One of our members does a lot for others and we decided it was time for her to have a quilt of her own. She only makes small ones and we wanted her to have one she could curl up in! One of the members found a f...