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Thank you Ann and today I already did take some photos of the flowers in their garden and neighborhood when I made a short walk to clear my head after yesterday’s long flight.

When life is turbulent, I tend to look to the past for solace and comfort. I was thinking about when my mother was a switchboard operator in our small town telephone office. The photo from 1962 has her (standing, second from left) and the other ladies who worked there until the changeover to direct dial in that year. I can still recall their saying "Number please." Our phone numbers were simple. Ours was 108. The best one was No. 1. There were also "party lines" which had strange numbers like 33R12 which meant Ring one long, two short. The older pic shows the earlier office in the front room of the house of the man in the pic. He was the local manager. That house is across the street from where I lived and has been lived in by a good friend of mine for over 50 years. The original wiring still exists under the house! I wanted to use some colour in this l/o since nature here is only slowly gaining some vibrancy.

Jaren en jaren geleden had ik de leuk fleurig gekleurde sandaaltjes van mijn tweeling bewaard. En warempel ik kreeg er nog een meisje bij. (ze inmiddels al bijna 50 jaar) Eindelijk paste ze na enige jaren. Dezelfde dag nog sprong er een bandje kapot maar ik dacht niet getreurd ik had immers 2 paar. maar ook die waren inmiddels vergaan denk ik. Dus pech hebben. Maar dat zal met goede yeans materiaal niet zo snel gebeuren denk ik.

I love the way you used that photo circle script and yourself in daffs are gorgeous!

thank you so much Julie. That neon is really quite easy to do (with the tutorial of course).

Not too bad. I have a plastic unit with many small drawers to hold parts. I will admit that all the drawers are full!

Warm day, cold day. That's the way it's been here too! Mother Nature is struggling with picking a season.

Cristina thank you and in the meantime I have arrived safely and my family was very happy to see me including the 2 dogs and I’m delighted to see all of them.

You did such a brilliant job with this and the neon!

So vibrant and cheerful. And spring-like!

I have two varieties of daffodils in my flower bed. The daffodils in the circle are pictures that I took of them in various sides. The center cluster is from Adobe Express. The bottom is a photo from my garden that I made into layers and merged in Photoshop, edged with one of Carole's edge brushes. The from is Carole's photo circle script. The side plaid is from an experiment in FF that turned out well. The font is from a CF and called Juicy Snap Solid. I made the daffodils from AE into a tube and created the pattern fill.

Daffodils are one of my favorites. There are so many varieties, but I only have two growing in my flower bed. I still have to post my pictures.

I didn’t know of Hardanger embroidery and don’t recall having seen it. Perhaps I didn’t recognize the style or name if I did see it. But, after your comment, I had to look it up. So, from English Wikipedia. Hardanger embroidery or "Hardangersøm" is a form of embroidery traditionally worked with white thread on white even-weave linen or cloth, using counted thread and drawn thread work techniques. It is sometimes called whitework embroidery. Hardanger embroidery gets its name from the district of Hardanger in western Norway, where it was known simply as hvitsøm (whitework). German Wikipedia Sie hat ihren Namen aus der norwegischen Hardangerregion, wo sie hauptsächlich für Trachtenblusen und Schürzen angewandt wurde. Die Technik ist orientalischen Ursprungs. Google Translation: It takes its name from the Norwegian Hardanger region, where it was primarily used for traditional blouses and aprons. The technique has oriental origins. Now, if I see it, I'll recognize it! 🙂

Beautiful Lynda. Nice to see you back in the Campus.