Farmer's Market Saturday.

Morning sunrise  over Muscatine.

And the Mississippi.

 Chilly mornings with overcast skies made for a subdued farmer's market yesterday.  However, we still had fun and made a little cash.
Cheryl did not have the time to work on her display as much as she would have liked... (She had to work this week for Pearson....)  but we still managed to put up something new and (hopefully) exciting.

Cheryl works on her latest display

Lots of colors

And new storage displays.

Turkey vultures hanging out by the boats

The Sunrise over the Mississippi was pretty.   Along with the various birds we see along the river banks.  I personally have a soft spot for the Turkey Vultures  that clean up the shore from time to time.

Cleaning up the shore.

Surfing the waves...

 They are so far on the ugly-slide scale that I believe they loop back into beautiful.

Theylike to fish too!  Just in a simpler manner.

 Red heads with black feathers.   Seeing one up close is actually very cool.   Not to mention that they always look like they are having a good time on the wind currents.   Similar to a surfer on the waves.  I could go off on a tangent on how beneficial they are to the world...but I'll save that for another post.

Is that a Crane?

Or a heron?   ( Or duck?) 

Cheryl noted that she might have seen a crane by the shore.  I ran down there only to find out it was a blue heron.   Still,  blue herons are pretty awesome birds as well.
  Far more of a dangerous predator than one might think...and not always just to fish!

Maybe she meant this type of crane...

 They eat pretty much anything they can fit inside that huge beak!  (Watch them eat rats and squirrels on YouTube!)  The blurry picture inspired me to fold up some items for Tees.

Blackberry Sundae

Origami dancing crane with fish

Typical after market celebration is to visit Tee's and eat a blackberry sundae.  One of the employees recently had a kid and wanted me to fold up a stork.   I used the "Dancing Crane" model and added a bit of a twist.   We shall find out what she thinks about it when we go back there next week.

Origami Dragon

Stork with bundle of Joy 

So that is pretty much all for this weekend.  Cheryl is currently in the shop planning her next felty model to unveil.  I will be joining her soon with some more folding.  I have a few more bugs to hammer out of the fish models.   The scales continue to be challenging...so I need the practice.     Thanks for stopping in.