Seeing the apples grow would be fun and picking them even better. My oldest son had an apple tree in his backyard at their last house. It was so interesting to me because several different varieties of apples had been grafted onto this one tree.
This is the last block in the second round of That Town and Country Quilt. The next round is in the suburbs. So we’ll see who lived in our little town. This is another little green space with a substantial looking park bench and a couple of trees. I can see two old friends, retired, meeting here everyday around 11:00 to sit on this bench and play checkers or chess together.
Today I continue my quest in creating and posting one block a day of the fabulous That Town And Country Quilt by the lovely Susan Claire. Today is day five of that project, and features another corner block. In the first round, every other block is a corner, so I think of this first round as the town square. These dark buildings show nothing of the secrets within.
“… The first thing that crossed my mind as I did this square was the book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. It’s a book that most of us read sometime in our lives. The tree in the book is an Ailanthus tree, also known as the Tree of Heaven. …”