And Sisters continues to entertain. A regular Friday afternoon market marks the beginning of our weekend, and weekends bring some kind of event: a three-day gem and fossil show, a beer and wine festival, a summer craft fair, and this week, the town-consuming quilt show.
A clothes line of quilts. |
People from around the world attend the show and we're told last year there were about 250,000 visitors. That's a lot of company for a town whose winter population is only 2,036. I am not a quilter and have no desire to be one, but we joined the throng yesterday to see what we could see. Here are a few photos taken at the beginning of what looked like a perfect day.
Quilts and quilters and quilt lovers were everywhere. |
Highway 20 runs through the heart of town but on this day travelers took the long way around. |
The creativity was impressive. |
This is one of my favorites. |
Food and entertainers were part of the mix too. This is Lindy Gravelle, who sang, and played a mean boogie woogie. |
One of the many advantages of living in a tourist town is that we can take an event—and its crowds and noise—or leave it. In this case we left it about 11:30, noting that clouds were building over the mountains. Thunderheads piled up all afternoon and around three o'clock they let loose with a barrage of frighteningly close lightning, crashing thunder, hail, and pounding rain. It was surely a blow to organizers, attendees, and the local businesses for whom these events are a lifeline. Fortunately, the storm moved off in less than an hour; we hope the party resumed.
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But from our point of view the most important news of yesterday was the completion of our dry creek. Yes! We think it turned out well enough to share a few photos. But you have to imagine its borders crowded with plants: grasses, flax, lupine, Russian sage, and other perennials, as well as shrubs. There will also be a deck, a path, a low bridge, and a couple of paved sitting areas, so you can see we have a lot of work ahead of us. So far it's been fun. And I still love rocks.
The ground is still wet from the storm. This shows our "beach" area. |
The "creek" runs from under our future deck to the fence. The neighbors may continue it. |
Looking back toward the future deck area. Now that it's finished we can concentrate on planting. |
1 comment:
lightening=a drop in the level of the uterus during the last weeks of pregnancy as the head of the fetus engages in the pelvis.
lightning=the occurrence of a natural electrical discharge of very short duration and high voltage between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud, accompanied by a bright flash and typically also thunder
Sorry, I had to bug you!--Ian J.
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