Iowa State Fair is Just Around the Corner

Ready for Anything on a Stick!!Ready for the Butter Cow!!

Ready for Silly Pictures...

but most of all..

I'm ready for a great time with my family at the Iowa State Fair!!!

Summer Means Iowa Sweet Corn!!

My favorite summer dinner is Sweet Corn, then add what ever else is fresh from the garden.

Farmhouse Crocks

Every Iowa Farmhouse had a crock or two for making pickles or sauerkraut. Now they are wonderful decorative additions... for storing wood by the fireplace, old papers, shoes. or use a glass top and it becomes a side coffee table.

Farmhouse Amish Quilts

These are Amish quilts that are on display at the Kalona Iowa museum. Years back our Quester club was treated to a lecture on these beautiful treasures.

A Bumper Crop of Cherries

A beautiful site
These will make a delicious cherry pie or cherry jelly

What a Bumper Crop of Cherries!!

Our Cherry tree in our Orchard

Early Kitchenware for an Iowa Farmhouse

Great 2 gallon crock with swirl pattern

Nice ironstone pitcher

What farmhouse would not have a great selection of mixing bowls.

Iowa Farmhouse Flower Garden

this is the old pump on the side of our house
White Hydrangea

Red Geraniums

Orange Blossom Bush

Pink Hollyhock