One College Graduation...After Another...After Another

This spring three members of our family received their college degrees.

 

 

The first graduate was our daughter, Carla, who graduated with a Business degree from Ohio State.

 

 

There were 10,200 graduates at OSU, but less than 8,000 walked. They just kept coming and coming!

 

They walked all the way across the stadium to their assigned places.

 

They had quite the pattern, but it all worked out!

 

They pretty much filled up that side of the stadium.

 

Soldiers ready to raise the flag.

 

And she flies!

 

Carla is waving to us in this photo. The business graduates were seated in a section below us. (There were over 1000 of them.)

 

 

The graduates filing to get their diplomas.

 

Congratulations, Carla!

 

Carla poses in front of the buildings where her education occurred.

 

 

 

 

Five days later we attended Ryan's graduation from Southwestern Community College in Creston, Iowa. In contrast to Ohio State, there were less than 100 graduates, which was nice because the ceremony didn't last longer than one hour.

 

 

Ryan majored in Ag ~ Crop Production to be exact.

 

I actually got him to pose for me!

 

Filing out. Can you find Ryan? Pretty much in the center.

 

 

An informal pic with his dad, Andrew, and Nicole.

 

The next day we went to Ames, Iowa, to attend Nicole's graduation at Iowa State University. The first two rows are filled with her cheering committee. ;)

 

I don't know how many graduates there were. Just guessing maybe 3000. The first ones to enter were the Ag students, which was Nicole's major.

 

 

There were over 600 of them.

 

We spotted Nicole early on. She is at the end of the next to the last row.

 

 

More graduates enter.

 

They pretty much filled up the floor and sides.

 

Hugs from her brother, Brody, while other brother, Blake looks on.

 

Andrew and Nicole.

 

Congratulations to all of you!

Celtic Solstice Is Finished!

 

This is the first time I participated in an online mystery quilt, and I loved it! I am already looking forward to Bonnie Hunter's  mystery quilt for 2014.

 

 

I decided to make my quilt 8 blocks by 10 blocks to make it large enough for a full size bed. Lots of tiny pieces inside the border ~ 3200 if I figured accurately!

 

It took me 3 and a half weeks to hand quilt this one, whereas I usually figure on a quilt taking two weeks to hand quilt. Some will go a day or two over, while others may be a day or two shy.

County Fair Quilt Is Done!

The last several years community quilters have made blocks which I sewed into a sampler quilt to raise money for the open class division of the county fair. I hand quilt the quilt, which is auctioned at the sale at the end of the fair. Here is the 2014 edition. The 2015 edition is in the works.

 

South Africa, Part 3

One day Cory took Noah and me to the Rhino and Lion Park an hour or so away from Jo-burg.

 

 

 

 

The park rangers have places close to the road where they feed the animals so visitors can observe them.

 

We saw antelope, warthogs, and ostriches eating together.

 

Another feeding area ~ this one attracted zebras, water buffalo, and ostriches.

 

This beast has an interesting horn ~ it grew right along his head.

This bird's tail is very long.

 

 

Feeding the giraffe.

 

The young are brought into a protected area.

 

People are allowed to go inside the pens and pet the babies. We opted not to do this.

 

This is a stork.

 

Some kind of wildebeest.

 

Wild dogs.

 

 

We were very close to this lion.

 

The watering hole.

 

 

I really didn't want to get out of the car, even though I knew he had just eaten.

 

The lions are fed every Saturday at 1 p.m.

 

By the time we got there, the "men" had eaten, so it was the "ladies" turn.

Cory said they will clean the cow or whatever it is up. (I declared it was not a cow, for it's hoof was not divided.) They will work on it off and on until it is consumed. They start with their favorite parts. 

 

I think this cheetah smelled the carcass.

 

Some more wildebeest.

 

The rhino.