Quilting

Waterloo County countryside enjoyed.

The blueing of alfalfa

The golding of the bean

The swaying of the cornstalks

By country roads are seen.

The mounding of potatoes

The cabbage colonies

The checker of the Holsteins

The bursting apple trees.

The romping of the lambkins

The heron at the creek

The Clydesdales all in caramel

The nursing foals still weak.

The corduroy of planting

The auburn harvest yield

The splaying of the hay bales

A giant billiard field.

This banquet of the senses

A patchwork ‘neath the skies

Commending our Great Artist

Who looks with knowing Eyes.

 

Note: I live in a district where Mennonite farm wives pride themselves in their quilting stitchery. Perhaps they identify with the Lord of all beauty as they lay out their tables and frames, and go to work with colourful patches, needles and thread, singing as they collaborate.

Author's Note

These images are available freely. They elevate the heart. They keep people going back to the land. They come under the Big Sky.