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A friend's 1938 Maple Leaf (Chevrolet) heavy duty truck, it's an ex-Coca Cola delivery truck from small town southern Ontario, perhaps 1940's or 1950's?
(some pictures he sent me)
I'm pretty sure this was paper pieced. My mom made this a few years ago. It's a small piece, maybe, 20 inches by 20 inches.
A friend's 1938 Maple Leaf (Chevrolet) heavy duty truck, it's an ex-Coca Cola delivery truck from small town southern Ontario, perhaps 1940's or 1950's?
(some pictures he sent me)
A rich gold is the actual color of this leaf, which is also posted in color on my stream. Black and white reveals a kind of nakedness, a stark, cold quality against cold, wet asphalt.
"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to- hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Looks like Mapleleaf Viburnum - Viburnum acerifolium - a native plant of Caprifoliaceae (the Honeysuckle Family). Also called Maple-leaf Viburnum, Maple-leaf Arrowwood, or Arrowwood.
Maple-leaf Viburnum is a low, densely branched shrub, 4-6 feet tall and 3-4 feet wide. Flat-topped clusters of white flowers are followed by berries turning from red to blue-black. Bright- to dark-green, deciduous foliage, maple-like in shape, is very colorful in fall. A shrub with maple-like leaves and small, white flowers or uniform size in flat topped clusters.
The distinctive, purplish-pink autumn foliage makes this one of our handsomest shrubs. Another native Viburnum with 3-lobed leaves, Cranberry Viburnum (V. opulus var. americanum), has large, showy, white, sterile outer flowers in each cluster and in late summer and autumn bears red fruits suitable for jam. Few-flowered Cranberry Bush (V. edule), with red fruit and only slightly lobed leaves, occurs at high elevations in the Northeast, extending far north into Canada.
Habitats include upland rocky woodlands, upland sandy woodlands, stabilized sand dunes with woody vegetation, and rocky wooded slopes. This is an understory plant in high quality wooded habitats where the shade is not too dense. Native to eastern North America from southwestern Quebec and Ontario south to northern Florida and eastern Texas.
The scientific and common names refer to the superficial similarity of the leaves to those of some maples (Acer); the plant is occasionally mistaken for young maples, but is readily distinguished by the flowers and fruit; the viburnum produces small, purple berries, while maples produce dry, winged seeds.
www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=viac
www.illinoiswildflowers.info/woodland/plants/ml_viburnum.htm
Pattern adapted from Liberty Fields pattern by Kathy Doughty published in Material Obsession (STC Craft, 2008) by Kathy Doughty and Sarah Fielke. Variation was creating a gradient in the colours and rather than piecing the leaves, they were appliqued.
This is a picture of the fruit and fall foliage of Viburnum acerifolium at Patapsco Valley State Park in Howard County, Maryland.
Native Shrub (Adoxaceae family) / November, Habersham Co., Georgia, USA / Copyright ©2013 by William Tanneberger - All Rights Reserved.
Mapleleaf Viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium)
To view Flowers - see www.flickr.com/photos/tanneberger/4585552254/in/set-72157...
Cornelia, GA (Cornelia City Park Nature Trail)
These are the flags at the Brooks rest stop ... AGAIN!!!! for some reason, I really like the way they set off against the blue sky there, and the area almost always has wind so the flags are flying nicely. For a guy who isn't into nationalism, I sure seem to be obsessed with flags ... check out my blog at blog.globalparadigms.com/