Quilting in the Country

Buggy Barn Quilt Shop near Reardon, WA

 

Resident horse, Buggy Barn Quilts

Buggy Barn Quilts is a destination quilt store in the country near Reardon, Washington.  It’s a fun place to shop if you are a quilter like me.  I’ve resolved not to purchase more fabric and patterns until I finish up a few projects, so I wasn’t their ideal customer.  Still, they were warm and welcoming as we browsed in the small shop. 

Buggy Barn Quilt Shop

I liked how Buggy Barn displayed quilts on the ceiling

Stack of fat quarters

Old wagon wheel leans against the Buggy Barn Quilt Shop

Countryscapes

Yesterday’s post offered some cityscapes.  So today I will give equal time to rural images.  What a contrast to the gleaming, shining, reflective glass and steel surfaces of a  modern city.  Yet each is beautiful in its own way. 

Old barn in the Skagit Valley

 

Weathered siding, old barn

 

Leaky roof on an old barn in the Skagit Valley

 

Rustic barn

 

Old Barn
by Janice Blanchard 

On the edge of the town
See the old barn sag
With a drop in its ridge
Like a sway-backed nag,
And the shingles torn
By the west wind’s will
Fly from the skeleton rafters
Until
You may count its starved ribs,
One by one;
Old barn, old horse,
Your day is done.