Peonies From Heaven

“Peonies from Heaven” is the Fair theme this year, with special awards given those entries that follow the theme. I thought you might like top see the theme quilts and one wall hanging. I regret to say it was raining so hard Tuesday, when I took these photos, that the horse show was cancelled.

(In case you don’t know, peonies bloom in Alaska when the flowers are hard to come by almost anywhere else in the world, so peonies grown in Alaska are entering the global cut flower trade.)

The one on the left used peony fabric. The smaller one on the right used the theme colors.

This one had peony fabric, but not in the fair colors.

And the wall hanging, about 16″ square.

P.S: My apologies for leaving out two of the fair-themed entries. I went back again today, and got photos.

The quilt on the right has fair theme and colors

And this one got a theme ribbon for fair colors.

North Pole Weather 8/4/12

The sun will rise this morning at 5:01, and set tonight at 10:53. We now have almost 3 hours of nautical twilight.

It has remained rainy. We didn’t quite set a new record for July, though we only missed it by .18“. We beat the June and July combined record by over 2”, and the greatest 48 hour total for July though, so you could say we’ve had a damp summer. August? 1.04” so far, so we’re definitely still in the running for the wettest summer of all time.

It used to be a truism that it always rained during the Tanana Valley State Fair, which started last Friday. Yesterday was warm and sunny, but the rest of the week looks questionable. I’m keeping my poncho in the car. I did get to the quilt show Saturday, in spite of the rain. I might show some more photos later.

Alaskan Quilts

These two quilts have very Alaskan patterns.

Fairbanks is known as the Golden Heart City.

This one represents the aurora borealis, though the real aurora doesn’t have this many colors.