June Birds

IllustrationCollage©2010Yanka-Babetteandfriends

There is a great activity going around at the farm. Starlings, warblers have taken over. We have observed three active nests with very noisy chicks and their very busy moms. We decided not to use certain doors as to not startle them. When they will start their flying "lessons" as they may walk or fall on porches I must make sure our doggie's predator instinct will be under observation :) At night frogs, early morning mallards, more frogs and jays and who knows what else are croaking and brooaaaking and hisss hisssing and prussss pruss and chickk chikking..

Don't you just love their sound? We are blessed, those who can hear, however, with one ear or little. Early morning when I am between dreams and waking these creature's calls are Vivaldi to my ears....

JUGGLER

Illustration©2010Babetteandfriends

JUGGLER

A poem by Richard Wilbur

A ball will bounce; but less and less. It's not A light-hearted thing, resents its own resilience. Falling is what it loves, and the earth falls So in our hearts from brilliance, Settles and is forgot. It takes a sky-blue juggler with five red balls To shake our gravity up. Whee, in the air The balls roll around, wheel on his wheeling hands, Learning the ways of lightness, alter to spheres Grazing his finger ends, Cling to their courses there, Swinging a small heaven about his ears. But a heaven is easier made of nothing at all Than the earth regained, and still and sole within The spin of worlds, with a gesture sure and noble He reels that heaven in, Landing it ball by ball, And trades it all for a broom, a plate, a table. Oh, on his toe the table is turning, the broom's Balancing up on his nose, and the plate whirls On the tip of the broom! Damn, what a show, we cry: The boys stamp, and the girls Shriek, and the drum booms And all come down, and he bows and says good-bye. If the juggler is tired now, if the broom stands In the dust again, if the table starts to drop Through the daily dark again, and though the plate Lies flat on the table top, For him we batter our hands Who has won for once over the world's weight.

Babette and Cows

Babette loves Horses

I created a new Bfabric Equine collection, a line of fabrics with blues and oranges with complementing small and large patterns. I used my horse drawing above for this line. I think it turned out quite lovely! View the entire Bfabric collection here.

Quilt

This quilt is made up of an array of 41 textile tilt sensors. Each sensor demonstrates a unique construction variation, showcasing different materials and techniques that can be used to create fabric tilt sensors.

Fabric By Babette and Friends

View Fabrics By Babette and Friends (BFabric) sold at Spoonflower

We love Tulip the dog