Bridges Between - January 2009

RuneE is sponsoring this monthly challenge on the first Monday of every month. Bridges Between is subject to open interpretation.

We have a long trail that goes from one side of the city to the other, following Burnt Bridge Creek. At one time this little bridge was the end of the trail.
It's a great place to watch the ducks in the spring and summer but even they know when to head for warmer shelter when the snows blanket the earth.

People here in this city of Vancouver, WA appreciate the outdoors and have made a lot of walking trails. Eventually, funds were available to extend this trail beyond this little bridge where it ended 20 years ago. It had only 4 miles built along this creek until then. THUS, this little bridge represents the "between" part of the old trail and the newer addition. It is truly a bridge between the old and the new trail.

I walked over this snowy bridge during our 2nd snowfall of this winter about two weeks ago.

Bridges Between - December 2008

RuneE is sponsoring this monthly challenge on the first Monday of every month. Bridges Between is subject to open interpretation.


We have this wonderful bell tower in our downtown Esther Short Park. It rings the bells automatically three times a day -- 9:00 AM, 12:00 noon and 3:00 PM.

It not only rings the bells -- but tells the story through means of a recording of the local Chinook Indians and the salmon runs before Vancouver became an incorporated city.

The doors open and a recording begins the story.
The picture rotates and another scene is displayed until the whole story is completed.
There are three scenes.

Then the doors begin to close. . .

The story is finished until the next scheduled time.

It is good to remember our city's roots and the importance that the Chinook Indians played when white men first settled here. Thus my "bridges between" this month. The Chinook Indians were a valuable resource to our city's founders and early settlers from many nations.
(Because of the bright sunshine that day, I had to take the photos at an angle.)

Bridges Between-- October 2008

RuneE is sponsoring this monthly challenge on the first Monday of every month. Bridges Between is subject to open interpretation.

As I worked on the two quilts I am presently making, I thought of how all the pieces went together and depended on each other.

Whether it was the larger blocks that were sewn side by side



or smaller groups of blocks of 4 or 9 squares connected together like little boxes

or even long strips. . .


each piece needed the other to make the final product. The seams held them together and acted like bridges to the other piece on all sides.
Thus, it took many bridges (seams) to make these quilts. The "connections" don't take us from one place to another but act as a whole. Two of these are being sewed to keep two young girls warm; to look pretty on their beds and maybe even connect them to the world of quilt making when they are older. What a concept that the recipients might become quilt makers when they grow up! These quilts could become bridges to a future hobby!

Yes, when I look at a quilt, I see many bridges . . . some I never "crossed" myself but I still have that "bridge" connection as a quilt maker.