Horizons

Today marks a monumental day for me. Yesterday, after 39 years in the workforce - as a computer programmer in the aerospace industry, a pastry chef in a local bakery, and the last 23 on staff at a large church in our community, I retired. So today, I guess you can say, is the first day of the rest of my life.

So in thinking about a new prompt for Bee Sewcial, I finally settled on "Horizons" - the line at which the earth's surface and the sky appear to meet. Of course there is another connotation... a range of perception or experience, ie. at a point in one's life like I am experiencing, one expects to "broaden one's horizons." At the very least, one can expect daily life to look a little different.

For color, anything goes! I'm asking my beemates to take the liberty - please! - to use it abstractly. I love the work of digital artist Grant Haffner - the layering and his use of multi-colors. I'm hoping they are as inspired by it as well, as they create their own horizons in fabric.

As for size, I'm asking for one rectangular block in a landscape orientation, approximately 8"-10" tall, which would mean about 30"-40" wide, depending on the block's height.

The 'horizons' shown here are all photos taken by my husband or I from places we've walked, lived, or traveled. I expect the blocks I receive from my mates to include a hint of a real horizon, but one that I've never seen before.... of bright, exciting places I can only dream of.