More floor tiles!!

When we returned today to the V&A Museum, I saw a few quilt patterns on the floor again. I also snapped a picture of a sculpture of a woman with a shawl having a great quilt pattern in the border. Imagine, not sewing a pattern, but carving it out of marble!!!

More from Victoria & Albert Museum

This museum is so great that we went back again today. I'm so glad because I found this whole cloth hand quilted beauty from the 1300s in amazing shape!!

The floors are amazing

My husband and I had the good fortune to visit London this past week. By far, my favorite site has been the Victoria and Albert Museum, which is filled to the brim with everything you could imagine of tremendous interest.

When we were going through it, I couldn't help but notice the floors in a couple of the rooms. Quilt patterns!!!

They also had some wonderful tapestries.  I thought this one looked just like the William Morris pattern I've seen. I'm sorry it's so dark but I don't think they wanted flash used and the room was quite dark to preserve these beauties.  I personally love looking at tapestries and marvel at the degree of detail in each of them.  I couldn't imagine having to make the wool, dye it, and then weave it, covering every little piece of canvas.  They were beautiful.

I have figured out that I can email pictures from my phone to myself and upload them to my blog. Having wifi in the flat we are renting makes a big difference.  I will post some more photos before we leave tomorrow.

Love to you all from very chilly London,
Randy

It worked!

 I am happy to report that eliminating anonymous comments has completely reduced the pesky spam comments!  WOOHOO.. And I hope everyone has been able to post their comments, even though I've been kind of quiet.

Well, I'll be quiet for the rest of the week.

On vacation with dh and ds ...

Hope everyone has a great week.
I've got some great pictures to post, but can't figure out how to do it from my location without incurring huge roaming charges.  VBG

Love to you all,
Randy

Too much spam

I have recently been inundated with spam comments from anonymous writers so I've changed my settings so that you have to be a registered user.  I'm not honestly sure what that means. I hope it doesn't keep out the real commenters from leaving comments.  

It will eliminate the anonymous comments, though. I'm sorry if this is a problem for anyone.  I just wanted to try to see if this will eliminate the spam.

I have some fabulous pictures to share of the Bouquets to Arts at the DeYoung Museum from last week that I will post later today.

Hope you are all having a great week.

Love to you all,
Randy

Nana Day again!!

The weather in California never ceases to amaze me. I had Ryan and Emma today and was able to bring them to my house to stay overnight. We had to go to the park and I thought Emma might be able to sit in the swing even though she's not sitting up yet. Here the two of them are having a great time at the park in the California sunshine!!

Another beautiful tree

This is another of my favorite trees in front of our house! Can you see the little pink buds? My tulips are blooming as well but not worthy of a picture!!
Have a great Monday!
Love to you all
Randy