Three Heads and Six Arms

GR&&DF I must once again humble myself in the face of such wonderful comments - I do thank you all. Last night I worked on another exchange piece I have that is coming up so no snaperoos of that.

Yesterday was "Farmers Market" day and so I trotted on over to see if natures bounty had started to arrive. This being the first part of May I was not expecting too much - and that is exactly what I found. But, walking over to the Civic Center I saw a new streetcar going up Market Street. The F Line runs up and down Market and is fitted out with many Historic Streetcars. This particular one was completely new, to me. Here is a snap -

It has DC Transit painted on the side - how great is that!! These are super cars to ride in. Except the Orange cars from Milan - I personally call them "rattle and snaps" as they bang and bounce you along giving you a ride not unlike "Mr Toads Wild Ride" at Disney!! The only super new fruit at the market was a whole booth/tent just packed with the new crop of cherries!!

I couldn't resist - so along with some onions, asparagus, tomato's and my Kettle Krack Korn - I picked up some of these lovelies. They are on the sour side which is just fine. I would guess that the sourness is because they are a new crop or the first crop of the year.??

While walking around the Market I noticed something going on down in front of City Hall - so like the nosey snoop I am I had to go find out what was up. There was the installation of a gigantic piece of art going on. To commemorate the long standing Sister City Program - ours is Shanghai China - the SF Arts Commission is installing temporarily "Three Heads and Six Arms" by Zhang Huan. Here are some snaps.....






and to sit on top of this giant piece is this "crown"....


You can click over to this site HERE and read all about the piece and the artist.

We ran to do some shopping in the Castro before we went home and this window just struck me as "colourful".....

I am not quite sure what Cliffs Hardware was selling with this display - but the window dresser always does something eye catching!!

Marchann58 asked about the floss I used on the CHS - Alphablocks piece - I used mostly what was called for - except for the vine/strawberry/bud border, nothing is listed so I came up with what I liked. The block fill for each letter I chose as I went along with no plan. The pattern calls for every block to be filled with Bittersweet, if I remember correctly - I wanted to mix it up a bit so I did my own thing again here. Where I re charted or completely redid a block I used floss that I liked - hope that answers the question.

Just a quick reminder - Tomorrow is the last day to get your name into my 3rd Blogiversary Drawing. At 3:pm PST I will close it up and do the drawing on this Sunday, May 9th - my actual 3 year of Blogging. I am still amazed that I could keep this up and find things to say all the time. I know sometimes the Blog Entries are a bit thin on info, but I hope those are overlooked. If you haven't thrown in just click over to the April 9th Post and leave a comment. Easy enough!!!

There you go sports fans!! Thank you again for stopping by do come again!

Take care,
edgar