Jeremy Graduates

My youngest has graduated from high school! Life is changing rapidly. I have one more semester after this one to finish my masters. Jeremy will be starting at Capital and I will be finishing up.
I have already applied for a new job and will possibly apply for a second one soon.
Here is a picture of my boy. Hard to believe they are all grown now.

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A dream......

For a couple of years now, I have wanted to do a landscape quilt. I have a picture in mind, but it is daunting to say the least. I have bought several books on landscape quilting, but I am afraid to bite the bullet and actually go to work on it.
This past weekend I was visiting my parents and I was looking at the hills and vistas that are so beautiful around where they live. Things have definitely changed from when I was growing up there, more houses, bigger trees...but I think I can do a beginner landscape quilt from these pictures and my memories.

This is from above out neighbors across the street, looking over the hills and dales into Pennsylvania.

This is a beautiful valley that we pass by on the way to moms. You can see the same smoke and steam stacks from the power plants as the previous picture, just a different angle.

Some favorite pictures

Taken with my iPhone camera, a Lily in my flower garden, Summer 2008

The day after the Blizzard of 2008. Steve and I went out driving and stopped at this park in Bexley. I thought this was a pretty scene.

Steve going back across the bridge.

An older picture, but still one of my favorites. I took this on December 26, 2004, in Sunbury Ohio. we had a bad ice/snow storm which knocked out our power for 4 days. We took the kids to Steve's parents for the holidays because Steve and I had to work and with no electricity at home, we didn't want to leave them there. So they were with their grandparents. But I didn't want to wait any longer and went to get them the day after Christmas even though we still didn't have electricity. It was a terrible time really, but there was beauty also. I had just gotten my first digital camera and was constantly trying to find that perfect picture of this storm. This picture was my last attempt. It was shot looking southwest from my in-laws driveway. I knew when I saw it, that it was the perfect picture, I was just hoping that my camera did the scene justice. I think it did a good job.
My hope is that in the future I can turn this picture into a piece of quilt art. I have been collecting books and fabric for the past two years in preparation for this. My biggest holdback is the doubt that I can do it. But it is inside of me, waiting to come out, bursting forth onto the "canvas" of my quilt.
Watch for updates on this, as I work on this project.