My supplies are packed up and in storage until I get the car tomorrow. Tonight was the final dinner together.

I did another small landscape today. It is a vineyard setting in Sonoma county where I live. It still needs some work – this is the bare bones.

I love the work of Kristin La Flamme who lives in Heidelberg, Germany. She is young and is a creative quilter to be reckoned with. She wrote a very moving letter and will be the recipient of a scholarship next year. Her husband is in the service and they have two adorable children who came to visit class. Here are her landscapes:

She was working from tiny pictures which she said helped her go more abstract.

Today we had a diversion as the bears came out to play:

These were the adolescent cubs. We don’t know where the Mom was.  Tonight when I was coming back to the lodge, one of them walked right across my path!!

Tonight at dinner they gave out awards for the challenge quilts. Libby Lehman was the judge. Best of show was this one:

First place was won by Linda for this rendering of Carnegie Hall started in a Ruth McDowell class:

Second place was won by  Sebastopol  quilter,  ta da, Judy  Bianchi  for  Pomegranites:

Third place and viewer’s choice was won by my Marin friend, Diane Ansel, for her Tuscan village.

Judy, who runs AQT, told me that I just missed out on viewer’s choice, which made me very happy. What really made me happy was selling two quilts!!!!!

Tomorrow, I will spend a leisurely morning and then have lunch with some bloggers and then go home to some peace and quiet!

I leave you with the dessert du jour!~ (Look DebR, no whipped cream with the strawberry!)