Fair day 2011

I visited my mother in Brenham yesterday for the first time in many months. We had a nice visit and a really good surprise at the women's building:

 A blue ribbon and a Grand Champion ribbon for the "Little Red House" quilt!

 She was teary eyed for a minute or two - she really didn't expect that, but it had to feel gratifying for her.

She puts a lot of time and effort into these quilts so it's no small thing if she gives you one as a gift. 

This is the appliqued  one she entered and I can't remember the name of it.  

The flowers are more hot lipstick pink than my camera suggests and the entire thing is hand-quilted.

 

We wandered over to the livestock pens to gaze at the pretty cow ladies.  The one above is a Charolais - the type my grandmother used to raise in Azle, Texas.

 

 A tiger-striped cow.  Don't think I've ever seen one.

 

Most of them barely paid any attention to us, but one rushed the gate and almost startled my mother off her feet!  I bet she gets tired of hearing me chime "No Fally-Downie!".

Rows of cow butts. Hmmm... "How about hamburgers for lunch?"
Ha ha  Just my weird sense of humor...
 A fun day in Brenham and I'm so glad she got the ribbon she did!

Gina