Sunday Quilt Inspiration: Z O O

We've just returned from an afternoon at the Alexandria Zoo with one of the younger grands, Marley.  A couple of hours well spent enjoying the beautiful weather, well-behaved animals, and a lovely walk.  The zoo in our area is privately owned or, at least, run by the City of Alexandria.  It may not be huge in acreage, but it's big on animal varieties and habitats. This zoo has over 500 animals of which there are 160 species.  

All of the photos that I've shown thus far are from the many that I took today while we visited.  They do not appear anywhere else on the web because I simply have not had time to post them.  So if you see photos that look vaguely like these, I apologize, but rest assured that they aren't mine.  

The quilts, now, are on my "heart, quilts" board or I found them on Pinterest while looking for zoo quilts.  I hope you enjoy them and are inspired to make a zoo quilt of your own.

Pin It Weekly #129

Still thinking of Paris

Happy Thanksgiving!

Pin It Weekly #129

I read an article recently in Smithsonian Magazine about the life of Ernest Hemingway.  The Smithsonian article is mostly about his love for Hadley Richardson and his marriages as told by one of his friends.  

I thought I'd look up a few of his novels and share a bit of his work with you.  Since he is known for his war writings, I've not considered his work something I'd especially enjoy.  I may have to rethink that.  He won The Nobel Prize in Literature 1954  and the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and for his journalistic and contemporary writing.

Hemingway was married four times but, apparently, his love for Hadley lasted until his death. He and Hadley had a son and he had two additional sons with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.  He was an adventurer and world-traveler, living in several countries during his lifetime.  As he grew older, Hemingway suffered mental and physical disabilities, committing suicide in 1961.