Collage with Prairie Flower saying

I had fun doing a few framed designs with my new

"Windswept..." prairie flowers saying.

The frame is a larger version of the

barnwood frames I've been using for a few

years. The man who makes them is

very willing to make any size.

new stamp

What fun to get a new rubber stamp in the mail!

I've had fun trying it in several ways.

Here are a few notecards:

Many thanks for the stamp, Sue.

It will be used.

late blooming liatrus

these liatrus are blooming like everything!
a few more by my dad's old cement mixer

Where have all the roses gone?!

I picked a large quantitiy of roses from this bush along the highway, and

there were plenty left to form these rosehips.

another view


and a closer look at some rosehips out in the pasture



These rosehips are on a bush that is growing in an old tractor scoop!
They turn a beutiful bright red.

A few recently finished products

small notecards with pansies mini frames with roses on music

a pansy and rose collage

and a better look at the frame...
the openings in the mat are 4" x 6"

In the pasture, on the hill...

This marker has been on the hill in our pasture for as long as all my siblings can remember.

If you have our family cookbook, this is the hill that is in the title. We can see in to the next state and also in to the next coutry from this high spot. Our family often used to take a walk in the pasture and climb this hill. This marker was alway impressive to us as children. Our parents

made sure we treated the marker with respect.

It says if the marker is harmed, it could mean a $250 fine or imprisonment.

Pretty scary to a child!

(complete text on marker: US Coast & Geodetic Survey triangulation station. $250 fine or imprisonment for disturbing this mark.

For information, write to Superintendant, Washington, D.C.)