Unlike my little operation, The lavender farms have ingenious but simple methods to dry the lavender. These chains are suspended from the ceiling of the barn at Angel Farm. As you can see in the thumbnail, bundles are then hung to dry and fans are turned in to circulate the air. This helps prevent mold and mildew. They made a perfect backdrop for a visitor showing off her new lavender wreath.
Month: July 2007
Volunteers Make It Happen
This smiling lady was a volunteer at Angel Farm. They had a French Theme with food from Cest si Bon. As you can tell by her shirt, she belongs to Soroptomist International. It takes a lot of volunteers to make the festival happen. I have posted other Lavender pictures on an additonal page (under the picture on the right). By Wednesday I promise to move on to something else.
Picture please
At the farms today there were lots of people with cameras…and why not! The lavender was in it’s glory. Rumor has it that the power outage was due to a fire at the Luella substation. People lost power from Diamond Point to Carlsborg. Fortunately it stayed on at my house. I had quilters here and they do like to have their machines running. We will see tomorrow when the PDN comes out. We are small enough here that we do not have a Saturday paper.
Stop and Go
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I’ll bet you thought you were going to see something purple…patience. I worked two shifts at the quilt show and then the lights went out…all over town. this would have been bad enough on an ordinary day…but with all the visitirs, it made for interesting driving. Thank goodness the police department and volunteers showed up to direct traffic. No word yet on why the lights were out for that long. More purple-lavender-and quilts are in your future. I plan to make some time tomorrow to come visit your blogs.
Setting Up…a lot of hard work
It take a lot of volunteers and hard work to make a quilt show happen….
Thumbnails..please click on these to enlarge.
1. Quilters bring their quilts between 8:30 and 10:00 a.m. Each quilt has been assigned a number and goes in to a special pile.
2. Standards are assembled and..
3. white sheets are attached as a backdrop.
4. Poles to hold the quilts are attached to standards.
5. Materials for decorations are check in.
6. Raffle Quilt is displayed for some lucky person to buy the winning ticket.
A special thank you to all of the volunteers who make it happen.
Follow the Leader!
Wylie seems intent on keeping up with J-dog. They are such nice neighbors.
A very nice thing happened yesterday. The Peninsula Daily News interviewed Jelvistar of Port Angeles Daily Photo and myself. There was a nice article on page C-1, Wednesday, July 18th. They featured several of our photos. Unfortunately, the PDN is such a small newspaper there is no online link to the article. I, of course, will be buying several copies to send to my family. I guess one never gets to old for a little family approval.
The quilt show set up begins tomorrow…stop back by for some photos of what it takes to make this event happen.
2 Days and Counting…
Those of who live in Sequim awoke to soggy skies this morning…our Sunny Sequim had changed. By afternoon the rain had stopped. On my home from class, I stopped by Angel Farm and took these pictures. The fragrance was heavenly!
The thumbnails show…1) a sign to welcome you to the farms…don’t forget you need an admission button which will get you in to all the farms, 2) the deep purple banner that marks the entrance to each of the farms, and 3) some of the many colors of lavender available.
