Closer to home

Hello everyone.  I'm slowly making my way home after visiting my dear family.  I hopped off the train this morning to visit Denver for a day and will hop on the next one tomorrow to continue on.  Denver is a wonderful place for walking.  The sun was out and the temperature was perfect.  A new travel center is being built and I think it will be quite something...a real hub for buses and trains.  So here are a few impressions...the old grand station which is being renovated:

A pattern where the sidewalk crosses the tracks:

Some coal cars waiting to go somewhere:

Crocheted flowers on the fence separating the sidewalk from the construction.  This is just a tiny portion of the display. 

Here is the sleeve of my old jacket that I "boro-ed"  a la Jude:

Some New Jersey azalea blossoms, just beginning to assert themselves.  It was cold and rainy almost the entire visit, but then Easter was a beautiful day, maybe even a little too suddenly warm, but how glad we were for the sunshine.

That's all for now.  Time for bed.

Waiting at the Intersection

Here is another in the trivet series...I made the design while the train coming home from Ohio was stopped to let passengers off...it was night and I watched the cars on the other side of the gate deciding whether they wanted to stay till the train left, or turn around and go another way...Life is so full of intersections.

After being home awhile, I made this little kitty coaster, called Cat in Recession:

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Then, after I made that, I was walking in the neighborhood and saw this kitty in someone's window:

The timing of that startled me...it seemed like everything had happened backwards.  That's why I'm including this last picture...the train has to back into the Denver station.  I was in the last car: here is the conductor guiding the train backwards into the station, using her walkie-talkie to stay in touch with the front of the train, and making sure the switches were all going in the right direction.

 That's all for now!