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Gees Bend quilts--Fires in Georgia

OK, going to try again to post. I was so excited when I was posting about the Gees Bend quilts, that I must have hit the wrong button. Our group from the quilt guild went on Sat. to the Orlando Art Museum to see them. The women are from Gee (s) Bend, Alabama and there is a PBS video about them also. Very good use of color. These women were dirt poor and made use of what they had, which wasn't much to start with.
We also saw the opposite end of the money scale, the lamps and stained glass windows of Lewis C. Tiffany. Also beautiful!
Fires--don't know if it has made any national news, since I don't watch it, but the wild fires in south east Georgia have burned about 98,000 acres of land. The smoke from the fires has been over our city off and on for 2 weeks. They are in desperate need of rain. The Governor of Georgia was on the news saying it's been declared a disaster area. Fortunately no one has been killed, but many homes destroyed. Fire people from many states are helping fight the fire, but what they really need is about 2 days of hard rain.
Had dinner tonight at a Thai restaurant to talk about going to Ireland next year. The couple we were with went last Sept. They did their own planing, etc. Looks more and more like a plan to me.
No quilting here today, I did bleach on the back deck, being a scrub woman. Yuk. Realize why the pressure washing people get paid so much.
All for tonight.
Sara in Florida

posted by Sara in Florida @ 8:40 PM