Red and White Quilts

Here is a shout out for the Selvage Blog!  Please check out Karen Griska's blog for several posts of photos of a fantastic display of red and white quilts.  She was one of the lucky people that attended the American folk Art Museum's display in New York City of 650 red and white American quilts all owned by one woman, Joanna S Rose.  From looking at the web page for the museum it was a great show and the display was so interesting and unique.  There have been lots of blog posts and write ups about this show in many publications lately.  Too bad I live in Nebraska and it just wasn't in the cards for me to get there.  Thanks to Karen for posting so many photos over several blog entries....just keep going backwards on her blog to see them all.

This is a promotional poster for the event which was held March 25-30, 2011.

Here are just a few links about the show that I found.  Some have great photos of the displays and the quilts.
Manhattan Local News
New York Times
Culture-NYC
Financial Times
Metropolis
The Daily Beast
one from China

Enjoy...Lynn

Farm Work

Recently as I was walking around the yard I looked across the road and saw our hired man finishing up fertilizing the ground that will have corn planted on it in the next few weeks so zoomed in with my camera and snapped this photo.  The tractor is pulling the fertilizer machine and two tanks of ammonia fertilizer.  The fertilizer machine has flat metal iron pieces called knives with hoses attached that cut into the soil and inject the ammonia into the ground.  The tanks being pulled behind the fertilizer rig hold the liquid ammonia under pressure which turns into nitrogen in the soil then the corn plant uses it to grow.  A simplified explanation I know but after all it is just a photo of day to day life here on the farm.

Lynn

Testing,testing....

I am testing the ability to send an email directly from my phone to my blog. I have attached a photo as part of the test to see if it will post too. By looking at the photo can you guess where I am going?
Lynn

(Just checked on my computer and it posted....Yipee!  Maybe I can post a few entries while I am gone now...that is if I remember how I did it!)

Spring Flowers

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Photos of some flowers in my yard – the blooms are so cheery.  It is nice to see these first bursts of color after a dreary cold gray winter.

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Lynn