Bubbles

After playing around with various mediums (bubble wrap, soap suds, even a bottle of bubble soap rifled from a long forgotten cache of kids' toys) the bubbles I liked were naturally occurring ones in the water feature in front of our house. This picture is straight out of the camera,  the color is due to a layer of algae on the bottom of the pond not the sun, because the sky is leaden and chilly. We don't put any algicide in the water because it is full of tiny tadpoles. And I rather like the look of the algae anyway. It does clog up the pump filter but it's easier to clean that than the whole pond.

We were up and out early for a brief 8:30 meeting with Jim, and lingered over a cup of Dana's excellent coffee. We moved on for a very brisk walk around Spring Lake. There were very few people braving the chill and the ones who were seemed to be immersed in their own reality...a sari clad woman in tennis shoes and wooly cap and shawl singing to herself, a bearded man with a handsome head of long curly white hair who complimented me on the way I descended a hill and then asked me if I ever used a cane! 

I made some ginger lime marinade for our chicken, answered some mail and spent most of the afternoon quilting my coat.  I found some quilting needles and thread saved from a long ago class which works nicely. I must have realized at that time that hand quilting was not for me because the large spool of thread was almost unused and the pack of needles unopened. Quilting a coat is far more manageable than quilting a bed sized quilt, but I can only do it for so long, so it will still take awhile. 

It is supposed to start raining tomorrow, but the sun finally broke through the gloom in the late afternoon and now, as the sun is going down there isn't a cloud in the sky...