Blue Bars Flimsy in the Yard

After some tweaking, I was able to get the navy and pastel Color Bars blocks kitted up. Scroll down to Monday's post to see where I left off. I had a very productive day at social sewing on Wednesday, and I was able to get the blocks assembled to a flimsy. 

It's extremely windy here today so to take photos I ended up laying the top out on the rocks in the yard. Even though I weighted down the corners with rocks, the wind still had its way with the fabric. 

My yard is desert landscaping: fake grass and gravel. We've been adding potted cacti to the plants that were already there. 

We have two Palo Verde trees that are blooming profusely and dropping yellow blossoms like snowflakes. All that yellow on the rocks is Palo Verde petals. 

Murphy got in on the action. He doesn't like walking on the rocks, so he sat at the edge of the grass and sniffed the breeze. Here you can see more of our pot garden and our patio. This photo was taken about 10am. We get sun in the morning - nice in the wintertime! - and deep shade in the afternoon, which is the best possible aspect for a home out here. 

The quilt photos were taken from out in the yard. Here's the view we usually see from our patio.

Our yard is unusually deep for homes here, so we have lots of room for plants. We're slowly making it our own, but planting season has ended for the summer and will start up again in October. Every plant and tree in the yard is on a drip line watering system and DH has run lines into all the pots, so every plant gets water on a schedule. 

In the yard we have artichoke agaves, a lemon tree, a valentine bush, bougainvillea, Palo Verde trees, and a Yellow Bird tree. We recently planted an organ pipe cactus, just a baby now but they get big, and an ocotillo, not visible in the back right corner behind the tree trunk. On the mound we have boulders and two big clusters of barrel cactus, and a hedgehog cactus which is finished blooming now but it gets gorgeous orange flowers. 

In the pots on the left we have a desert spoon, something we named Flat Stanley because it's as flat and two-dimensional as a cactus can be, a Morroccan Mound, Clarence the lumpy totem pole cactus, pine cone cactus, and baby hedgehog cactus. On the right we have some kind of succulent, a Victoria agave, some artichoke agave pups, a bunny-ear cactus, an African Milk Plant, an Old Man cactus, a firestick plant, a mammalaria with pink flowers, a single barrel cactus, and another desert spoon. When we find interesting specimens we add them to our collection. The tall standing woody thing is a saguaro skeleton. 

OK, so I got off topic a bit - what started out as a quilt post turned into a yard post. Oh, well, they're both works in progress. 

Linking up with Alycia Quilts for Finished or not Friday