April Flowers and Hoochy Mama Bugs

I've been taking some photos over the past few weeks and finally sat down today to put some on line.  I love this checker board bulb, I'm not sure what it is called but it looks like it should be in a quilt.

 This lovely tulip that appears to floating is from my friend Rita's garden.

 Love the bumble bee centres on these flowers.

 These four tulip blossoms are from the same stem!

 A slightly closer look.

 Forget me knots in pink, blue and mauve tones.

 One of the first bees of the year.

 Here is another busy bee.

 Daffodil.

 A lovely magnolia.

 Another variety of magnolia.

 Just coming into bloom.

 The view from my condo a couple of weeks ago.

Some delicate bells blowing in the wind.                                                                                               

One of my checker board bulbs coming out of bud.                                                                             

 What a lovely two coloured tulip against some ornamental grasses.

 A visiting sea lion swimming up river with two other friends checking out the neighbourhood.

Another two coloured tulip with a bit of a ruffle to it's edges.                                                                 

 A peony coming out of bud.

 More two coloured tulips with a some water droplets.

 One of our rhododendrons in the courtyard.

Hoochy Mama Bug exchange blocks!                                                                                                  

 This bug is by Rebecka Shafer.

 Linda Lee Ahn sent along some bug buttons for us, thanks Linda.

 Deb Green made us selvage butterflies.

 A dragon fly by Sharon Buford.

 Carmen sent each of us a butterfly for her first swap!

I think Mari  Linfesty sent this bee.

 I think Claire Marland sent this dragon fly.

 Nancy McCain sent this chenille tailed dragon fly.

 I think this is a firefly buy by Gloria Gowan.

 This is the dragon fly I sent to the swappers.

Thanks to all the swappers, now to put them together as a quilt.  Thanks to Mary Lou Weidman for putting us all together with her online swap group!

Wool Crazy new project, a thank you and floral inspirations.

Somehow these images flipped and one of the duplicated, after laying down my wools and basting I've started doing some crazy stitching.

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I'm hoping to update this every few days to help see the process of making this project.  First I laid down various wools on a piece of osnaburg and then basted them down. 

  

This is a thank you from a patient and her husband.  I was very surprised by this lovely gesture.

The succulents are in bloom, don't you like the lovely colours of this one?

When I first stopped to look at this bloom I thought the blue petals were from another flower that had blown into the spiky petals. 

The yellow edge to these red flowers are very eye catching.

Red and green are complimentary on the colour wheel, and they are shown well on opposite sides of this plant's leaves.

The sprinklers shut off just before I came for my walk, and some of the water droplets made the flowers sparkle.

Even though this leaf is starting to dry, the texture of it along with the water droplets is very pleasing.

This plant makes me want to have a mocha and coffee with a bit of whipped cream.

This is one of my favourite succulents, it comes in a darker red/maroon colour.