Free Flying

I'll admit, right up front that I didn't take this picture. Dana did and sent it to me yesterday from San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. It's difficult to catch any bird in flight and I thought this was a particularly beautiful shot with the light behind the wings. There's also something especially uplifting about it...the grace, the elegance, the carefreeness I see in this image.

I went to the fabric store this morning in hopes of finding some fabric I had in my stash but not enough for the project I am embarking on. I made a couple of practice squares with it, knowing that it had a good chance of being the second time I wouldn't be able to find any more of it.
I stuck a piece of it in my pocket  and sure enough, they didn't have it. Nor did they have the lighter one I settled for last time they didn't have it. There then followed the usual period of wandering around trying to find something else and listening to the conversations among the ladies sitting around the big back table sewing and chatting.

I wound up talking with the woman who orders fabric for the store only to realize that I couldn't find the scrap of fabric in any of my pockets. She said she is in the process of ordering and that if I brought in my swatch she'd see if she could get it. I'd already found something else that I think will work and came home to deconstruct the two practice squares I made yesterday and remake them with the new fabric. And that was my day. 

I don't know what this fixation on tariffs is all about. The on again, off again absurdity of it all is causing the stock market to tank and driven Trump and Musk to turn the front lawn of the White House into a Tesla showroom. Surely a conflict of interest, and clearly an illustration of the fact that they don't seem to have any idea how tariffs work. In typical fashion, the more that is written about how damaging they are,  the more he doubles down rather than admit he is wrong.The latest fantasy is a 200% tariff on wine and spirits from Europe. I'm not sure how that will affect the wine that is made practically next door to us, but we probably ought to buy a few cases soon.