Imaginary Blog Posts

So for the last little while I have occasionally taken photos for a blog post, then not written that post. So here are a few of the things I didn't get round to posting.

The 29th September was my 13-year blogiversary. My first post in 2009 was of aphids on a rose bud. But here the climate is a bit different, and the roses hardly even had leaves at the end of September, definitely no buds. However, tulips are budding at that time:

And daffodils are flowering:

On the 8th October I attended a quilting meeting, and a few other people brought along their blocks for the birthday quilt I made blocks for in September. Here are most of the blocks laid out:

They looked pretty good! (I think I have a photo somewhere of the whole top assembled. Will have a look for it.)

Also on 8th October, the crabapples were looking great,

I had a couple of magnolia flowers,

and pots full of tulips looking lovely:

 

On the 9th of October we had a field trip, and on the way home saw a sign pointing to Nimon's Bridge, so took a side trip to check it out:

It is an old rail bridge, now just for walking across. Next time I will take the path that leads to the bottom of the bridge, as it is probably more spectacular from down there. The view from the top was pretty nice, but I didn't photograph it.

On 13th October I started quilting my Positivity quilt:

It was a good day for it, as this terrible photo of the weather station shows:

27mm rain that day.

On 22nd October, I sewed down the binding, and Positivity was officially finished:

Closer view of the quilting:

 

Just found the photo I was sent of the birthday quilt blocks assembled ready for quilting:

Made by 8 different people. I'm glad I didn't have the job of assembling it. There were the usual issues of blocks not being all the same size, which for a design like this was a bit of a problem as you don't want to trim blocks and lose the points. But I think the assembler did a good job of making it all work. I hope the person it is for loves it!

The last 4 days of October were a bit mad, as we participated in the Great Southern BioBlitz, trying to do as many iNaturalist observations as possible. But I did take the time to notice on 31st October that my tree peony flowers are beginning to open:

Also October was the wettest month ever since we moved here, with a total of 115.4mm! Everything is mud and the lower half of the block is under water.

That's it for all the posts I didn't write in October. I'll see if I can do better for November.