Out and About - New T-Shirts and some Sidewalk Peeping

 

Hello hello! It is soggy here after last night's big rain. Wet June has arrived. Last week we had one very hot day and I suddenly realised that my old ratty summer tee shirts, three years old at best! were no longer acceptable as post-pandemic I now run into people as I walk Mo. Somehow when hiding behind behind a mask and wearing a winter coat it doesn't seem to matter what one wears, but now?  

And as for now, I am very confused: Covid is rampant here especially among vaccinated people; do I get the fourth shot or not. Masks are not mandated but suggested strongly; articles are appearing saying that people who refuse to wear masks are self indulgent, self entitled narcissists! Well, oops, I am no entitled Karen person, I don't think, but I do hate wearing a mask--- I can't breathe, they trigger my severe claustrophobia/ panic attacks, and with the eyeglass fogging, a mask makes my vision even worse.

Of course in the throes of needing summer clothes I forgot all that and L and I trundled off to Old Navy in her new  SUV, lah di dah.

The store looked neater than it usually does, which was nice.

And not crowded. I did wear my mask.

I loved seeing the 4th of July tee shirts!

Oh such memories that brings back, of my kids being tiny and every summer they'd get a new 4 th of July Tee. 

I wish I'd saved them all, I'd make a memory quilt.

So here is my haul!

Six t-shirts, 2 tank tops, 2 summery roll up pants [hems roll up], and  beachy top for $150.oo, includng NYS 10%-ish sales tax.

Yes I know the clothes are rather cheap and not quality or even ''cool'', but they are cool to wear and suit my needs.

Tees:

Tanks, cute frilly hems.

Pants, one washed chino, my fave. And one washed linen.

[the shorts selection was odd---sizes small, XS, and 4XL---nothing in between.]

And here is the adorable beach top. 

I know it's too gaudy and my kids will hate it if indeed they see it, I know it's too young for me. But I love clothes like this. "Boho". And if I never wear it I will save the fabric, a hand blocked India cotton print. Mango and raspberry--delish!

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Back home, now that it got cooler again, Mo and I have been enjoying our walks despite year two of local roadworks and pothole fixing. Hope to get to the secret walkway soon, but for now we take a different route, especially as poor Mo has been so unwell.

More iris. These are the kind I especially recall from my childhood, the two tone version. We played baseball in the fields of an abandoned farm and though the house and barns were gone, the flowers remained, daisies, black-eyed susans, lilacs and iris especially. We'd dig the iris up and bring them home for my dad to plant under my mom's climbing scented dark pink rose bush. My brother moved those iris around for years, he may still have some.

These are weeds, but this variety, the striated blue, are so pretty. 

We call them snake wort.

Wild millefiori rose, small but form pretty berries and smell good too.

And the first week of June is rhododendron week in the northeast. 

I am not a fan of purplle rhodies, but up close they really can be quite lovely.

The budding hydrangeas look hopeful, so green.

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Then I put the transitional pink quilt on the bed for a week or two. It's a flea market rescue and finish you probably recall. I enjoy studying the fabrics, like this block using ''double pink'' calicos and plaid. The pinks vary and even when the same classic pattern, the colors are different. Everything was used.

Oddly I always thought this quilt was a Chimney Sweep block, but it is not. This is the blue May quilt---Chimney Sweep or Album , you can see they are not the same at all.

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And I have my summer sewing box all set up and ready for deck time afternoons, as soon as I finish getting the deck ready for use. Waiting for a friend to put in the umbrella and help sweep and for new white canvas windscreens [July!? $$$$]

I was thrilled this morning to see the first coreopsis in bloom. Carefully deadheaded it should bloom all summer.

Have a great weekend.

                                          

love 

lizzy 

gone to the beach..............

no IG art class this week due to Queen E's Jubilee, so I computer drew my iconic beach walk and roses instead. It got very few likes on IG but I love it.

and from Nicky in SA, via Penny, her lovely autumn beach  and evening sky.

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