P is for Patterns ~ A to Z, Backwards

While looking through my pictures, I noticed several with interesting patterns. I like the pattern of these beautiful trees we saw last year in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.

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This Quilt was displayed in one of the museums in GSMNP. At this stop we saw some of the most vivid foliage that I have ever seen in all my life. Every leaf was a brilliant orange one very large tree. It was quite spectacular! They served hot Apple Cider for us to enjoy while we browsed the museum and store.



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I really like the pattern of the white polka-dots on the Monarch Butterfly. How neat that his body is polka-dotted, too!

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I think the pattern of a Caladium leaf is interesting.

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We saw this pattern at a boat landing. Grass was growing in the open squares of a material sort of like black-top.

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These funny looking rocks were in the area of Grenada Lake. I couldn't figure out what caused the pattern of holes in these shale-like rocks. See how some of them are connected?

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When we were visiting the Mississippi Agricultural Museum in Jackson, we looked down and saw that the floor was made from wood that had been cut in the shape of brick. I thought it made another interesting pattern.

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Happy Monday,Y'all!

Absolutely my last post about the Ag Museum!

The Surrey with the fringe on top is my very favorite thing on the museum tour! This is my last post on our tour of the museum. I just wanted to show you a few more things.

I believe this is a Model T Ford. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Here is another one of the many buggies.

This metal wheeled John Deere tractor is at the entrance to the museum.

This big, lavender bush looks like an Althea.

This wooden wheel with wooden spokes and a metal rim looks like the ones that were on my Daddy's old wagon.

The sign said that this was a Turpentine distillery. I was thinking something else.

This is an odd looking tractor. Check out the wheels!

I wish I had written down information about all of these displays. I believe this is a Stearman bi-plane.

...Even More pictures from the Agriculture Museum

This is a small replica of the farmer plowing. My daddy walked many miles behind a plow, but he used two mules or horses instead on one.









Before we arrived they had just admitted 300 eight-year-old scouts! What fun!

This was a pretty display of the Crazy Quilt and the Spinning Wheel. This is what they used to spin the cotton fibers into thread. Sounds like time consuming hard work!

I'm glad to say that I don't remember this, but it is a Loom where they made fabric from the thread they had spun. No wonder they didn't have many clothes back then!

This depicts how washing was done 'in the dark ages', as the sign says. I actually remember the wash pot and the rubbing board. Gee, I must be ancient!!

Here is the Purple Martin Hotel, complete with a Purple Martin on top!

There were many, many colors of roses in the rose garden, but this was my favorite. Looks like peaches and cream! Yummy!

Beautiful Red Roses around the flag pole.

This is one of the horses on the Carosel. I think this was a smaller one than those I used to see at the Fair. I see where some kid lost his sucker.

I think there will be one more post about our trip to the museum in Jackson. We really enjoyed what we saw and I'm sure we missed some things. Maybe we will go back someday.

More Agriculture Museum Pictures

This is a sign that was at the entrance to the replicas of buildings you might have seen in a small town many years ago.

This is a typical service station you might see in the late 1930's and 1940's. Check out those gas pumps where you could see the orange colored gasoline in the top of the pump. The cost per gallon in this era was about 30 to 40 cents. You could have a mechanic repair your car and get tires, oil, etc.

This is the village church. I didn't see a designation of the denomination, so I guess this is the church everyone attended.

Most every small town had a Masonic Lodge, which was always a two-story building.

This is a replica of the old General Store, where you could buy anything from candy, groceries and sewing notions, to farming needs and feed for the farm animals. This was one of the places where men met for conversation and maybe a game of checkers around the old coal burning pot-bellied heater that usually stood in the center of these old stores.

Hope you are having a great weekend!

Skywatch Friday

This is part of an unusual weather vane at the Mississippi Agriculture Museum in Jackson, MS. You can see the other parts of this weathervane in the "Weird Object Friday" which is posted below. I couldn't help but think of the saying, ......"When Pigs Fly"........
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