Stitchery Project - Progress Report

I thought I'd give you a glimpse of how the "New York City Subway Tile Art" project is going.

September 2015 - still sketching in the buildings

October 2015 - buildings in, now putting in the sky

October 2015 - sky in, second colors applied to a couple of the buildings, top right area

November 2015 - second colors applied to lower level edifices

December 2015 - more colors everywhere

January 2016 - you have to really look now to see the differences, but as I've gone along sewing, it's been startling, the changes

February 2016 - at this point, I only see 7 buildings left to fill in.

March 2016 - okay, only 5 and a half left to do

I'll be back with the final scenes very soon, as the work gets more exciting, and I want to see it all done at last.  I began it in September 2014.

Skiing with Grant

Jeffery, Grant, and I went up to the Diamond Peak Ski Resort above Incline Village at Lake Tahoe for a great day on the snow.  We are so glad we did, since the snow is nearly gone now, and we probably wouldn't have gotten another good chance this season if we'd waited.  We all had a blast, but Grant was particularly jubilant about getting back on the skis after 18 years, when he was such a ski-kid, he was on Ski Patrol.  He took to it like a fish back to water.  We hadn't been in a couple years, due to low snow, so we, too, we darned satisfied at the end of the day.  Grant treated us to shakes and fries at the Jax Truckee Diner afterwards, so we only needed a light sup when we got home.

Grant gets geared up

now he's ready!

snow cannons at the end of season

close up

Jeffery took this from above on the ski-lift.  See our selfie-shadow?

looking back

riding up on the chair lift with Lake Tahoe in the background

I like the long slope in this shot of Grant.

there I go down the hill

here comes Grant.  We didn't get one of Jeffery in motion, sad to say.

Grant and Jeffery at the Lakeview Lodge where we had our bag lunches

how empty the place was; we rather loved it.

our lunch view

the requisite happy-together photo!

Grant at the top of the mountain

Jeffery poses with his gloves

I'm not exactly sure what they mean by the G.S but I know who O-God means with a black diamond next to it, and I'm not going down that snow road, that's for sure

last ride up to take my last slide down,  It sure has been fun!

Water!

We've been having a wonderful wet March.  Here are enough photos of our world to make you tired of waterfalls, but if you could drive through the canyon, you'd see that there are thousands of them all along the way.  I just can't capture them all.

the river at Rock Crest

Jeffery on the bridge at Rock Crest

looking down-river from the Rock Crest Bridge

and now, upriver from the bridge

the train trestle over Rock Creek; Jeffery is in the middle of it, taking his own photos

seen from the Rock Creek trestle

Jeffery looks down from the middle of the trestle

Rock Creek

Rock Creek; this photo is for comparison later, when things change

this log debris raft is sitting there alongside the tumultuous river, and we were fascinated that it just stayed there

Jeffery's photo of Indian Creek above the falls

Indian Falls, or some of it, anyway!

Canyon sunset over Mt. Pleasant at Rich Bar.

one drum-gate down at the Dam, looking at Bald Eagle Mountain

Rock Creek on Saturday

Rock Creek on Sunday, after 3 inches of rain fell on Saturday

My Sunday morning water tour took me past many places that never shed water until such large rains come, so it's been a long time since we've enjoyed such extra delights along the drive through the canyon

The water just comes down everywhere.  And I mean, everywhere.

I rode along, unable to see all the wonderments on both sides of the road and river

across from the Arch Rock Tunnel is a waterfall that normally hides "shyly" in it's tree-shrouded ravine

water just pops into view and shapes itself into brilliant white tracings

it takes me by surprise as it gushes out of the rocky walls and roars at me as I go by

isn't it fabulous?  I wish I could give perspective by having a tiny human up there on the railroad tracks somewhere

There aren't enough pullouts to capture some of the better falls of water that you can follow all the way up to the top

water follows its best course?

I could watch for hours

zoom on a section of Bright Falls

some canyon falls come out into the roadway during really bad storms, which makes driving both exciting and terrifying.

I'll call this Laurie's Falls, since he just discovered it by being a passenger rather than  a driver, and I'll note that the power lines are annoying (hey Lucy!  see what I mean?)

Colby Creek is usually tiny to the point of invisibility

the mosses add to the beauty, don't they

this shows another of the Varieties of waterfalls/creeks - the rocky terrain

uh-oh..... a new creek forms on my friends' driveway as hill seepage has increased

see how the water just pops out of the hillsides?

last one for now, this one at the gauging station below the Rock Creek Dam.  The telephone pole gives size perspective.

There; are you tired of waterfalls yet?  I just can't get enough of them, myself.