October 5, 2010 The Old And The New

Tuesday October 5, 2010
What Was Old Is Now New

What Was Done Is Now Begun
Superseded Into One

     Seasons.......times taking place.......Summer is officially over, but there still remains some days like summer, warm and sunny.  Still lingering not quite giving up.  Fall breezes in, forcing jackets on, insisting it is time for Fall!

      Old age.....68 (my age)  is young for some, old for others.  It is in the mind, attitude, that judges the moment.  I don't feel old, but there are tale time signals that tell others I am old.  Little wrinkles poking up here and there, birthday cakes with lots of candles, and maybe standing next to my young grandchild :) .
The old becoming new in the genes of our generations ahead.
     In nature you can see the signs of fall.  Here in Wisconsin we have the blitz causing  plants drying up, cool nights bringing on the colors of trees, also the fields becoming bare from farmers harvesting their crops. The old dying back in fall, no longer showing its beauty of youth, but hidden below the ground is the new, the next years new growth hidden for a season.  Spring bringing back the new birth of another season of life never being exactly like last summer but with pictures of the new added to the old.


Plum Ash Near Our Home



 The Plum Ash above is the prettiest Ash there is.  It is so full of different colors,  looks like it is glowing.  Here in Wisconsin the Ash are dying from the Ash borer.  So far there is no cure or predator that will get rid of it so it looks like we will be loosing the Ash trees like we did the spectacular Elm that died out years ago.  This saddens me because my woods hold a lot of  the plain Ash out in the wild areas.  Our trees are such treasures here in this world of ours.  It takes them so long to grow and seem so fast to be eliminated. They produce that oxygen we breath in using old that we breath out.  The now falling leaves will enrich the earth it lies on as it deteriorates into rich brown soil.  Superseding from old to new.



Our woods we look out on in Fall.  Heart tree to the left formed by two oak trees.

      My gardens look sad too.  Things are drying up, nature is cooling down drying up the perennials, in readiness of the long cold days ahead.  I use to water and try and keep everything alive but nature is doing what should be done.  If the plants are too vibrant and green they will freeze out because they have not regressed to dying off the tops, the bottom roots stay alive with hardy perennials.  The zone for my area is 4, and there are maps out there called zone maps that will tell you what your area is.  In spring the resurrection of life begins again.  With the warmth, spring will trigger those roots to start shooting stems up.

Back to the old, becoming new......    I love to collect things, buttons, material, plants, horses (4),  Indian pictures and artifacts plus things like old linen embroidered, antique hankies to be used on pillows I want to make. Books full of old ideas I can use to make something new.   Taking the old and making it new.  Like the perennial plants in the frozen ground waiting to be made new, my collections wait to be made into something new.

Above is a picture of my button collection I save in glass vases, bottles.  The east sun makes them glitter as it comes up to start my day making me feel glad to be alive. Second picture shows other buttons in baby food jars and old hankies sit in a pile on counter. The wood boxes hold needles, and things I need for sewing.  The round wood box an old carpenter , a friend of my dads, made and gave to me, and most others were finds from rummage sales.
 Allen my cat snuggles into my material below which I collect.  I had spent a night going through my collection sorting colors for my new quilt. Picking up the pile and putting it into the basket so it is handy as I need it. Some of the material was found at rummage sales, estate sales, and some bought new.  All being used to make new out of old.



Other material is sorted in colors and saved in clear plastic containers ready to be chosen for future quilts.  My book collection is garden books, quilt books, and in our library in a different room, novels and horse books fill the shelves along with numerous other books we collect.



These collections are found in my computer room-sewing room.  And what an amazing collection of ideas we find in the computer!  It superseded at such a fast speed from when it was invented to now.  God has blessed man with such beautiful minds to image His very own.  But how mute ours are to His, YET, if we go to Him, He graces us with what we need.

The picture to the left is my granddaughter's baby quilt I made her 13 years ago.  Not too old but well worn by now.  Katelyn has been coming once a week for sewing times with me and decided to make a new lap quilt using the same figures on her baby blanket but using the Turnstile pattern instead of the the tiny blocks pictured on the left.  Below is the two blocks she completed this week.  She   chose to embroider the figures instead of doing them in applique.  We went to my sister Pat's house on Saturday to learn Embroidery stitches Katelyn wants to use on the seams after she is done.  The quilt is pieced by machine by Katelyn and will be embroidered by hand.



Hope you will all share with me what are your old Superseded Collections that you are turning into new...............

Above image found on Internet but do not know where.......beautifully done by someone....



Just Living in the Overflow of God's Love.....
Kate