What's blooming!

The lilac bush in my backyard has fully opened in the past two days, you can smell it yards away, I love it! So does Kelsey who often rests in it's shade.

April finish

Just finished my first baby quilt of the month, probably because it is for a baby shower that's today! Machine pieced and hand quilted-my finger is sore~!

About the tour

In spite of my best efforts blogger has published this backwards please scroll down to older texts and then to the one entitled A Virtual tour of My hometown, I hope and begin reading there

Gail

Nearby Kansas City is the home of many wonderful things: a world class ballet, symphony orchestra, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. It is also the home of the Royals, major league baseball team, the Chiefs, NFL football team, and the Wizards professional Soccer team. Independence has a minor league hockey team, the Mavricks, and on the Kansas side you will find a minor league baseball team, the T-bones, as well as The Kansas Speedway of the NASCAR circuit.

All in all, I think you would find my part of the world very interesting and that's before we hit the quilt shops!

In keeping with my love of history, I thought I'd show you the Midwest Genealogy Center. Recently voted one of the top 10 centers in the US I spend many hours there, I consider the staff my personal friends.

Considered a part of the Bible belt we have many, many churches. This is the temple of the Community of Christ Church, it is affectionately called the "pigs tale" because of the spire which is visible for many miles. The inside of the spire is stunningly beautiful and resembles the interior of a sea shell. Perhaps a bit odd in that we are days from the ocean.

Accross the street from theBingham is the National Frontier Trails Museum . I was a tour guide and Education coordinator here for several years, this is where my blog and email name of "trailteach"comes from. Independence was the jumping off point for caravans of trade goods to Santa Fe beginning in 1827 and later of pioneers headed to Oregon and California. Talking about these people, how they lived and what they did is something I enjoy so much I'm afraid I might become boring. I 'll try to hold myself back!