We're back!

We were so lucky with the weather on this vacation. It was fabulous and even on the last day (Thursday) I was able to get out to kayak for a couple of hours. This was on the way back looking toward the place where we stay. You can see that "our" house has a spectacular view.
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It's a 980 mile drive home so we always have a book to listen to and I have a crochet project. I started a shawl for this trip. We stated one book that was recommended to us and it was AWFUL. We switched to the newest installment of the Cork O'Connor series and it took us to within 15 minutes of home.

I only have a few rows left to do and this shawl will be done and ready for donation.
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I did do a little shopping on vacation. At our stop in Belfast, I picked up two new patterns. I've been looking at Lepidoptera for a long time. Katie made one a few of years ago that I loved. I thought Oak Moth was just cute.
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In Wilton I found these cute earrings.
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In Southwest Harbor these 3 fabrics asked to be taken home.
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Last week I talked about the rocks our friend, Bill, brought me. One person asked to see the rock collection so here goes.
Bill has a career in the US Navy and then a second career as a pilot for American Airlines. But his college major was geology. He loves rocks and collects them from places where he travels. These are rocks that he brought me from Ventana Canyon in Tucson, AZ. We visited them there last winter and hiked Ventana Canyon twice.
He always includes 1 untumbled rocks for comparison but he tells me that it takes weeks to polish rocks in a tumbler. The rocks are on the tea towel that his wife, Laurie, made for me. 

Here's the beautiful tea towel that I will really use. She wove it with a beautiful butterfly pattern. I have a scarf that I bought from her several years ago that I also love.

These are some of the rocks that he polished for me from Cadillac Mountain. I hiked Cadillac on my 60th birthday so he did these for me to commemorate that.

Last year (2023) was the first year that they stayed with us in Southwest Harbor so he got these rocks from the lake. I have a lot of little wood trees, some I've bought and some a gift from a friend, that I use with my rocks to decorate the mantle. It's a little unusual, but given that I also collect vulture art, it all seems to fit.

I haven't quite gotten myself totally organized for the week so I'm not sure what I'll be sewing but today I'll, at least, get the farm blocks out, press them and get them up on the design wall.