SOL 19/31: Unscheduled Time!

Today I join my fellow bloggers in "serving up a slice" 

to the March Slice of Life Story Challenge community.

Thanks to Stacey, Betsy, Beth, Kathleen, Deb, Melanie, and Lanny

 for hosting this meeting place each day in March

and for nurturing our writing lives.

When I rose at 5:30 am on Friday to get ready for our book club retreat, I must admit that I grumbled a bit, wondering why we were leaving so early. But as the early arrivals headed for the small town on Vashon Island, I was rewarded with the realization that we leave early so that we can enjoy unscheduled time together. We're open to whatever grabs our fancy! And after an early lunch,

 and a stop by a local landmark, the bicycle in the tree, 

we were enticed by a sign at the arts center

to meander through a quilt show. 

Here are a few pics from that show. We loved the stories behind the quilts almost as much as the quilts themselves.  

This is a community quilt created in 1994.

I love this quilt block of a 3-D raccoon!

You can see the bicycle in a tree on the 3rd row of this quilt.

Here are two of my favorite quilts with their stories:

Be sure to stop by tomorrow to discover 
what happened when Debora disappeared!