Well executed design features! She's a lucky one to have a sewist in the family! I would have been proud to wear that one!

Possibly the carbon capture pipeline going through Iowa, stopped at South Dakota due to legislation blocking it, and up to North Dakota. Iowa’s Republican Governor just vetoed a bill passed that would have stopped it in Iowa.

At least they are mainly white animals and not black woolies unless you, of all people, have chosen to go slightly against the norm (a friendly poke, Jon). I worry more about black Angus cattle in the coming hotter and hotter years to come. You need the solar to make ice to keep cool. Sigh.

Your post makes me think of the beneficial use of sheep to graze within solar panel installations and animal survival going forward in the hotter years to come. Ugh. Thanks for complicating things in my brain.

And @mushroomjenja.bsky.social

Looks like the butterflies are on a sheer overlay. What a bold fabric for the day! So many ideas for what to do with a piece like that.

Was the seed incorporated in any particular way? I have a 40 year prairie planting on a former corn field that's being taken over by brome slowly. We hand scattered locally collected seed and have added some in the years since.

Is the dormant fire mainly in late fall?

Wood lily blooming already?

Brome or other?

What? No rotary dials? These new fangled things.

I'll second this, Jason. I watch for your posts here to help stay current. Missing what you did on X with space station visibility and storm tracking.

Possibly the most powerful, breathtaking haiku I've ever read.

Looks like twining for main part of basket? Very cool!

My mother in State Teachers College in Cedar Falls during the Great Depression wrote a paper on Dewey, and he has influenced 3 generations of teachers.

I love its history! Women with wealthy husbands tried to convince them to put money towards a library for years. When one man died, they discovered he had written the beginning of a library into his will without admitting it to anyone.