St.Jacobs Quilt Shows

It was in the evening of May 25Th that we all three of us attended the Opening Ceremony of the St. Jacobs Quilt Shows. because I was invited to the opening ceremony as a second prize winner of the Quilt Block Challenge, which was a part of the Quilt Shows. When we arrived there we realized that we were quite younger than most of the people attending there. Also my sister and I were only Asians, my brother-in-law, Chris Carey was only young guy there. but we were welcomed by the ceremony co-ordinator, Loretta Martin, who recognized me as soon as we went in. It was a really small community meeting kind of Ceremony. We heard very warm and funny personal story about a quilt life of one guest of the ceremony for a while, she showed us from her first quilt to the latest ones, telling heartfelt and hilarious stories involved in her quilt projects. and then the co-ordinator called winners to the front. It was a wonderful moment for me.

My quilt block that I challenged is the snowflake pattern with a blue ribbon on the right side of the vase in front of the quilt.

All the quilt blocks had been made a big quilt, which was so beautifully finished.

The finished quilt is going to be donated to the Ontario Mennonite Relief sale and Quilt Auction.

The first humming bird of the year

2 weeks ago I bought a hummimg bird feeder. I had been looking for a nice one and finally found it. Searching website to know exact sugarwater recipy, I prepared humming bird feeder and hung it where my brother-in-law, Chris had already made for me .
From around May 10th hummingbirds are coming but it was still early.
The humming bird feeder was filled with anonymous ants so Chris took it off , of course we knew strong wind was comming.
And then in a slightly windy and rainny day, Chris called me aloud from his bedroom upstairs.
I rushed to upsatairs and saw a tiny humming bird beamming around and sucking honey from flowers right outside of his bedroom window.
We watched it for a while in an amazment.
A few days later I hung up the humming bird feeder again.
Now I'm looking forward to seeing humming birds, thinking of my Chris's parents, Joyce and Sheldon's beautiful country garden and the humming birds we shired.
That was one of the most beautiful things in my life.

The first humming bird of the season