Weekly update: a few more wildflowers, I won!, meeting the challenge, and reading

 

Wildflowers and beavers at Sedge Meadow Forest Preserve along the Des Plaines River.

Blue-eyed grass, mayapple, Atlantic camas /wild hyacinth. Mayapple leaf, crane's bill/wild geranium, golden ragwort. Canadian anemone, star-of-Bethlehem (an invasive garden escapee), golden Alexander. 

The beavers are active in the evening and the early morning when the forest preserve is closed.  I'd love to catch a glimpse of them!  (Lower right photo shows fungus neatly lined up in the grooves of the tree bark.) 

This is a phenomenon known as witches' broom. Left: left over from last year. Right: this year. 

This explains the cause.

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Everyone in town turns out for the fire department pancake breakfast on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend.  I spent $20 on tickets for the 50/50 raffle and I won!   I got the call after church and walked right down to collect my winnings. 

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The Stashbusters announced a challenge for June:   churn dashes of the maker's choice in memory of long-time SB Marianne, who passed away in 2020.  (This post is about the day I got to visit her, along with Grace and Barbara.)  

 By coincidence this past week I began sewing 6" churn dash blocks out of Christmas reds and greens. 

I'm aiming for 90 blocks.  (This is a rough draft. I have corrected the misplaced red churn (fourth from right, fourth row.)

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Kim Michele Richardson tackles social issues of mid-50s Kentucky including , interracial marriage, child welfare, domestic violence, women in the workforce,and the power of books and reading. Honey Lovett is the daughter of Cussy Mary, the Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, and displays her mother’s determination and resilience.  Though this can stand alone, it is a worthy sequel to the 2019 Book Woman debut. 

 

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