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Shades of Sunshine

Here are two little quilties and I did indeed use one of the photos my son took while in Sweden. But first, I want to explain that during supper tonight our conversation was about all the wonderful native plants we saw today on our walk at Arrowhead Marsh. A prairie/marsh area being restored in upper state Indiana by Little River Wetlands. This conversation with its twists and turns lead to the fact that the picture of the sunflower I used in the quilties was taken at the Carl LInnaeus garden in Uppsala, Sweden. Carl (1707-1778) is the father of modern taxonomy for both animals and plants and my son toured his gardens while in Sweden. How cool is that!? I just liked the picture! But now I know a little of the history behind it! – or how plants got their scientific names.

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2 Responses to “Shades of Sunshine”

  1. susan shepard Says:
    September 8th, 2008 at 11:04

    I’m a native Kansan, so of course I love these. The orange/purple thing is just wonderful.

  2. Five Shadows » Blog Archive » Sunshine Says:
    September 9th, 2008 at 06:09

    [...] quilties to Lenna for the swap. Here is the second design I created. You can see the first design here. I made three of each design. Four will go to ladies participating in the swap, one is for Lenna [...]

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