Life's a Stitch

Next stop: Washington

Last stop: memories created in Sonoma. Next stop: Mount Vernon,Washington, home of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. 

I've posted my disenchantment with photography reduced to shots taken from  a phone, replacing the art and  science of photography in its true form.

Confession: I left my camera at home. As difficult as it is to admit, these are taken from my phone.

I had thought about running back to Costco to buy a little camera but resisted the urge. If I had, I would have missed those skies. 

It was a wonderful weekend, Easter with Dave and Blogless Marsha and reuniting with our Illinois family for the Tulip Festival. After visiting the fields we explored neighbouring town, LaConner, WA and then back to Mt. Vernon for lunch at the festival's salmon barbeque, hosted by the Kiwanis. They raise $80,000 yearly for community non-profits.

Knitting content: I was disappointed to see that after many years, and purchases might I add, that Hellen's yarn shop in Mt. Vernon had closed.

We're not in Kansas anymore

Audience Choice Award - Sonoma International Film Festival

Taking My Parents to Burning Man

I was plucked from reality and whisked away to Oz, aka the Sonoma International Film Festival where my son and his partner in filmmaking had their world premier. 

There were swag bags:

Fantastic accommodation:

Photo ops:

Press coverage during and after. Radio and TV  interviews. A fantastic photographer who gave me tips to feel great  about pictures at 60. Thank you, Dana Curley:

Great appreciation to our sponsor at the festival, Blaine, of WildFireWeb.

I bet there will be a few people getting hits on their sites wondering why they came from a knitting blog. The answer: I wasn't going to let the movie happen without a knitting scene. Can't wait to share it. 
 

Burning Mom

AKA Taking My Mom To The Sonoma International Film Festival. This is a continuation of the story of my son's first feature length documentary Taking My Parents to Burning Man, of a mom and dad accompanying their child to the place of his dreams.
The world premier was at SIFF to a sold out crowd and standing ovation. Does a Mom's heart good, especially when, as he says, "she didn't think she was going to get me through high school."