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LindaSchiffer

Columbia, Maryland

Jill of many skills from Eastern KY via TX and WI; owner of Seminole Sampler quilt shop (now closed).

Interests: quilt making (especially art quilts), making altered books, science fiction (lifelong reader; movies and tv), gaming (as in role playing, etc), human prehistory and other archaeology

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Taking Some Action

This has been a long and unusually depressing winter for me. I have seasonal affective disorder naturally (being a child of northern Europe as I am) but my lights and medication usually keeps that in reasonable check. The election and... Continue reading

Posted Feb 27, 2025 at Fiber and Pulp

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I think snowflakes are beautiful! I love to watch it snow - the world gets quieter and everything has softer edges. Of course, this is based on watching it snow outside my windows while I'm cozy and warm inside. :)... Continue reading

Posted Jan 23, 2025 at Fiber and Pulp

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Today was busier than my usual Thursday. The pretty snowflake above is in honor of the ones I watched fall in the early afternoon as I was driving from my house to my local quilt shop, Springwater Designs. Today was... Continue reading

Posted Jan 16, 2025 at Fiber and Pulp

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This is a quipu - a knots-and-string recordkeeping device from South American cultures (including the Inca). Apparently the kind and placement of the knots as well as the color and type of cording has meaning. My niece, Amy, and I... Continue reading

Posted Jan 15, 2025 at Fiber and Pulp

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It snowed today! I know this is not news in most of North America for any given winter day ... but here in Maryland, snow has become an unusual event. We got somewhere between 3" and 5" in my neighborhood... Continue reading

Posted Jan 6, 2025 at Fiber and Pulp

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This is a cotton plant, grown by my daughter Eva in her backyard garden in southern Wisconsin this past summer. I had no idea cotton had such a pretty flower! This particular cultivar is one with beige/tan cotton fibers. She... Continue reading

Posted Jan 1, 2025 at Fiber and Pulp

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Happy Thanksgiving!

There are still some Autumn leaves on our trees but the wind is quickly pulling them down this weekend. :) We had a lovely Thanksgiving Day. My husband, son and I went to my brother's condo for the afternoon. Hugh... Continue reading

Posted Nov 28, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Where Have I Been?

This photo of one of the first generation trees of our mother Bloodleaf Japanese Maple was taken about two weeks ago. The mommy tree is now blood red (instead of the more venous red 'ordinary' leaves), too. Time passes. I... Continue reading

Posted Nov 17, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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These are gladiolus flowers (also called Sword Lilies). My Mom loved them - they come in many colors and create a fairly long-lasting bloom stem. I haven't seen many growing here in MD but they are pretty common in southern... Continue reading

Posted Aug 19, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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More Construction

August is my personal marker for the flowering of many so-called weeds in the verges of highways and fields. The one above, Goldenrod, is a widely distributed late summer flowering plant and the state flower of Kentucky (probably among others).... Continue reading

Posted Aug 4, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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(With thanks to my friend Leeanna for the funny!) I spent three days last week and at least two more planned in coming weeks on quilt shop hop road trips. Fun! Barbara, Patty and I decided to try to visit... Continue reading

Posted Jul 30, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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This is the deep dish pizza that my son, Hugh, and I made for dinner on Thursday night (the 4th of July). Happy tummies! :) We did not go to the fireworks - have not for many years. Used to... Continue reading

Posted Jul 6, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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This is White Dutch Clover blooming. It's a common plant that grows wild nearly everywhere on the continent and is my personal signal of 'Summer' arrived. If you click on the photo you can go read about the benefits of... Continue reading

Posted Jun 30, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Yet More Catching Up

We have arrived in summer with very hot weather this week - upper 90s and humid. Pretty general Maryland summer except that we had what I think was a fairly cool spring with lots of rain so no one is... Continue reading

Posted Jun 24, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Today was a happy, inspiring time! It was the monthly meeting of the Repro Club at Springwater Designs quilt shop (my LQS). The geese above were two different families with goslings strolling around the fields beyond the building where Springwater... Continue reading

Posted May 16, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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This was a pleasant week in the fairly-uneventful life of me. :) The azaleas and rhododendrons are still blooming. The pretty deep pink one above was flourishing in the beds outside my doctor's office on Thursday afternoon (more in a... Continue reading

Posted May 10, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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When I went off to search on 'daily life' I had no idea what a rabbit hole I'd fall into! There were any number of images I could have chosen (statistics in daily life, science or chemistry in daily life,... Continue reading

Posted May 5, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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MidWeek Dithering

When I did a 'midweek' search on images online I found this one - a vintage Sami (reindeer herder) image of father and daughter (?). Do you have certain cultures that you are drawn toward? Maybe due to your family... Continue reading

Posted May 1, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Blooming in Place

The first spring that we lived in this house (in 1987) there were about a dozen azalea bushes blooming in our front yard. Over the following summer and fall, all but one of those bushes died. I was told this... Continue reading

Posted Apr 26, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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We are having a run of glorious weather here in Maryland this week. On Earth Day I decided to enjoy the outdoors by taking my brother for a walk in Wilde Lake Park here in Columbia. Almost the first sight... Continue reading

Posted Apr 23, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Suddenly the dogwood trees are lighting up the woods with their ethereal, floating white blossoms this week. So lovely! My next door neighbor has a pink dogwood blooming in her yard, too. I love spring! :) I have managed to... Continue reading

Posted Apr 19, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Today I saw the first redbud tree in bloom for this year (well, _my_ year anyway:). My memory says they bloom in mid-May along with the dogwoods. This year everything seems to be blooming at the same time, though. Haven't... Continue reading

Posted Apr 14, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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All the Flowers

Forsythia Japanese Cherry Pear (probably Bradford) Some kind of Winter Berry Nandina berry? Everything is blooming at once here in Columbia! I have seen but been unable to photograph other flowering trees - Star Magnolia, Chinese Cherry (probably Kwan-Yin), Plum... Continue reading

Posted Mar 19, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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Early, Sunny Spring

Today I saw my first blooming Forsythia bushes for this spring. Lovely, bright yellow and happy. The plum trees are flowering now, too. Bright pink and cloud-like. In our side yard, the Vinca minor is also shining bright blue and... Continue reading

Posted Mar 13, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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My daffodils are in full bloom now. Their radiant yellow faces are bowed down with the weight of the days of rain we are having. I'm sure the grass and trees are delighted but the flowers look sad. :) I... Continue reading

Posted Mar 9, 2024 at Fiber and Pulp

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