Sometimes I swear that my computer has gremlins in it....Yesterday, Photoshop was refusing to open...telling me that I needed to un-install and re-install as there was a licensing bugaboo....right. So...yesterday didn't get posted. Yesterday and today was very busy. I had the Miami Valley Art Quilt Network, a meeting with a potential photographer for my daughter's senior pictures (and I'm still struggling with that one), and getting ready for the Vietnam Vet's pick up of things I wanted to donate (read: clear out).
I needed more voltage than what was going through these boxes I fear.
Or maybe I'm just a cracked pot.
Today, I was bopping around in Tipp City, Ohio, a cute town just south of me. Tipp City is really Tippecanoe, of the Battle of Tippecanoe and "Tippecanoe and Tyler too!" campaign slogan. The battle didn't take place here, it was named for it though.It was one of Ohio's Canal towns, and is home to Spring Hill Gardens, and Tipp of the Town tomato canning...Trophy Nut and a number of other small, light industry.
The best part of it is downtown though...it's filled with small antique and specialty shops. The Hotel Gallery is in an early 19th century hotel and is home to a variety of artist studios and arts and crafts. This is actually a little enclosure between a florist shop and the back side of the Hotel Gallery.
A willow tree hanging on to it's last leaves.
These two will definitely find their way into a quilt somehow...Gem City Ice Cream...yum! The Gem City is Dayton.
This is another oddity which will find its way into a quilt... It is the fruit of the Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera) also known as the "hedge apple."
They are sort of attractive, but not edible....at least no one eats them. The poor lady who lives around the corner from me fights her Osage oranges every year. Her large tree dumps lots of them on her yard...They are about the size of a grapefruit.
While I'm not about to plant one, I am fascinated by their color and texture.....definitely the mark of a quilter I suppose!
3 comments:
Lisa, that Osage Orange is sooo interesting. What a lovely texture! I feel like running my fingers over that photo.
These are all GREAT and so cool! I like them all, though by the toss of a coin, the rusting fuse boxes is my favorite. (The Osage Oranges and Gem City Ice Cream ran a close race.)
Thanks, Sunita and Vivien. Coming from the two of you, that's high praise indeed. I was thinking of you Sunita when I posted the Osage orange...sometimes the midwest comes up with some fairly exotic things, but India has so many more!
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