spotted towhee

today's garden

prunus 'accolade'

wild mustard

ribes sanguineum alba

ribes sanguineum

ribes sanguineum

hummer magnet

there you have it the full array of colors for ribes sanguineum in our garden.

katakanasince i ran out of japanese hankies to fill out the quilt matrix
i painted a quilt square with my name in katakana.
quilters are always supposed to sign and date their quilts,
so i signed it right on the front in big black inky script.
a friend from college taught me how to write my name
in katakana(the script used for foreign names + places).
when i was little my sister's friend
(whose parents were in ww2 internment camps)
taught me how to say, "i don't speak japanese"
in japanese, along with a bunch of other japanese phrases.
i would love to be able to sit in on the classes
taught at the high school and learn
how to write and speak japanese.
then i would be able to read all the
fabulous craft books i've been buying at uwajimaya.
i hope that mariko, our japanese exchange student,
when i was little, will enjoy seeing this quilt
when it is finished since she gave all the hankies to my mother over many years.