Good-bye Stumpy

Here's some of the quilting going into Mary's quilt on Marty...

A little detail

There's not much to see. I'm ditching everything and putting in a snowflake every once in a while. An embellishment is added here and there when the motif warrants it. My conundrum right now is what to put into the wine-colored border. I'm still working on that.

We got enough rain yesterday to start raising the lake. This stump used to be about five to six inches out of the water. I took this last night just as it was starting to get dark. This morning, Stumpy is gone. We'll probably never see him again in our life time. It's about 25 feet off our permanent dock so he'll be way beneath the water as it returns. 

Our "rain gauge" for the past six years

We've watched the lake rise and fall with Stumpy. We lost him in April this past spring with the heavy rains we received then, but it was only for a few days before he reappeared since our gates were still open.

More work on Marty this morning and then I'll move over to Bernie since Mary's quilt should be finished by lunch. Nothing else in the studio last night. We needed to get groceries.