We started our morning by visiting 2 apple orchards on the outskirts of Madison, heading east. This day I have really blown my photography chances. I forgot to take pictures! We arrived at the first apple orchard to find that they would not be open until 10:00. What is a senior citizen, who gets up early, to do. We headed to the next one. It did not open until 11:00. We were not far from Stoughton, Wis. so on we went.
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Low and behold, there was a quilt shop, Saving Thyme, but it too, did not open until 10:00. Well, we were closer to 10 but still had a bit of time to kill. Ron had found out that there was a bakery in town, so off we went to find it. It is the best bakery we have ever found. Fosdal Home Bakery is to die for. We picked out the most luscious donuts, brownies and cookies! They did not skimp on filling or icing on anything.
By the time we were done picking out our goodies, the quilt shop was open. While Ron got gas I got the chance to browse for a few minutes. |
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| On our way back to the orchards, he was not be be denied his apples and cider, I spotted a couple of sandhill cranes. |
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| We then headed on to Milton, Wisconsin, to check out Loose Threads Quilt Shoppe. It even had a couple of barn quilts. While I was inside looking around, Ron had picked up a guide for Rock County, not far from where we were. He found there was a Barn Quilt Trail with approximately 162 quilts. As we had no special plans on how were were going go home, we decided to check out a few of them. |
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| This one touched my heart. It is called "In Memory of Dad" and is outside of Milton. Instead of one block, it was a whole quilt. It is a beautiful tribute. |
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| Found a few chickens! |
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| We came across this cute quilt store in Clinton. This was a "did not know about" one. |
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What a neat quilt I found there. We did get to visit about 20 barn quilts on our way back to Illinois. I am going to post pictures of the barn quilts on my other blog Mary's Barn Quilts.
Again, we had a beautiful day, and again, no color!
We have heard there is color further up north, just not around us yet. I guess this is another reason to go on a road trip later. |