Days like this....

All I can say is get ready for photo overload...at least from my corner. I don't normally put this many photos in one post.  I suggest you click to expand the view.

We were heading the a trader's fair...but got detoured into going to Marshall, Illinois.  Someone told us there were supposed to be yard sales all over town.  The clouds were just glorious the entire time we were out. The one above was taken on the way...

This is from Route 1 in Illinois, on the way home.

Another photo from Route 1...I am not sure what that is between the two sections of clouds directly aboe the green barn.  I am pretty sure it was not cloud, so must have been on the windshield.

This one is heading east on State Rd 150

and this is on farther east.

Here we are getting closer to home, on State Rd 163

Sorry I could not limit myself to just one or two.  I just go crazy taking photos when I have the chance and the clouds are like these.  These were all taken through the windows...I really hope you will click on them and enjoy the cloud picture show.

Does any one remember....

I don't remember when I heard/did this, but sometime in my life, I remember picking these 'heads' with a long stem.  Then hold the stem up close by this head, take the long stem and wrap it around the head, and pull it and as this is done say, "Mama had a baby and it's head popped off."  The way it is held results in the seed head popping off when you wrap and pull the stem end around it.

I didn't know what this plant was...I don't remember calling it anything as a kid...but in looking I found that it can be called a narrow leafed plantain, and is also know as ribwort or buckthorn.

But what I would like to know is who thought up those lines to say with that action? Have you heard it before?  I just think they are such strange lines to say....and I hate to admit it, but showed Lorelei. 

A new quilt project

This is what I paused to work on while waiting to get more batiks...it is going to be a baby quilt for Roger's cousin's daughter.  I am having to order fabric for the backing...but soon as it comes in, I am going to get it together and get it quilted.   There things that I wish were different about it...but too late now.  This is only the second time I have used pre-cuts.  I used a charm pack called Bandana by Me and My Sister for Moda.  (For those of you who don't know...Moda is a fabric company and Me & My Sister are actually sisters that design some of the fabric lines.)

When the baby quilt is done, I want to get started back on my daughter's Lotus quilt.  She ordered batiks and had them sent to me, and she mailed some she had picked up, plus I bought some more.  I should have plenty to finish her quilt now.  I am wanting to get it back to it.
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I am not sure how hot it got here today...I hung out a load of clothes at about 3:30 p.m. and there was no doubt in my mind that it would get dry.  They have been in for an hour or so.  I know I told one blog friend that our temps had been up to one temp...I think 84 or 85ºF yesterday.  I was getting that temp from on line...but when our local weather came on, he said it had been up to 89º.  Right now it is 91º...I just simply cannot take the real hot temps any more...I hoed the tomato plants and came in so red in the face!
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I/we are going to be busy for the next couple of days.  I should get in some visiting but not sure how much.