Spring has arrived in Kansas, and with a couple of days of rain, the wheat is growing, leaves on the trees are opening, and everything seems to be eager to crowd the season a bit. The sand hill plum blossoms opened earlier than usual, and like Isaac and his friends, we all have our fingers crossed that a late frost won't spoil the plum crop again this year. I opened our last jar of sand hill plum jelly a few days ago, and I need to restock the shelves this summer.
I'm not complaining, but the rain knocked some of the petals off before I got outside with my camera to take pictures, but for those of you who read
my post of March 1, 2012 titled "Sand Hill Plums" and are interested in seeing what blooming plum bushes look like, I'm posting two pictures taken yesterday as we returned from Stafford. (You can click on the photographs to enlarge them, and if you look closely, you may be able to see the thorns.)
My husband and I were returning from the Stafford County Historical & Genealogical Society where we had hosted friends who spent the afternoon cleaning and cataloguing some of the glass plate negatives from the Gray Studio Collection. You may read
my January 6, 2012 post about the "Stafford County Museum" collection by going to the blog archives. I bribed my friends a little by planning a tea party as an excuse for gathering at the museum, but it was really their spirit of volunteerism that caused them to accept my invitation.
The Gray Studio Glass Plate Negative Collection may be seen at
http://www.contentcat.fhsu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/stafford.
3 comments:
Thank you to my friends who accepted my invitation to help the museum!
WONDERFUL Post.thanks for share..
Lyn, sorry I'm so late with a response. It was wonderful having you all here at the museum that day. We processed 171 negatives that day, which is fantastic. We really appreciate your efforts at putting the gathering together, and we appreciate all the hard work of the volunteers! -- Michael
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