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CMMC July Pick a Topic

Sunflower and Corn Fields. Near Badger Creek State Recreation Area, Iowa. July 19, 2021.

It’s my favorite week of Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Pick a Topic from Her Photo! Find the challenge photo here. Cee says, “This photo is of the small grape vineyard with hay fields. Possible topics: children’s play area, haystack, grape vines, trees, green blue, red, stairs, lines, field, trees, green, tan, etc..

Steps. Ledges State Park, Iowa. July 20, 2021.

Since I thought of pictures I’ve taken at different times in very different places, I chose to go with a variety of topics: fields, steps, tree line, roll, hay, and slide. The first three pictures were taken earlier this week as I was out exploring in central Iowa.

Tree Line beyond Wildflowers. Big Creek State Park, Iowa. July 21, 2021.

The round bale of hay in Cee’s challenge photo reminded me of large rolls of materials used to make mattresses.

Roll of Quilted Fabric for Side Edges of Mattresses. Brooklyn Bedding, Mesa, Arizona. May 2021.

When visiting family in May, my brother gave his wife and me a tour of the mattress company where he works. I was amazed at how much of the factory floor is set up for large scale quilting! I knew that the top, bottom and sides of every mattress are quilted, I just had never thought about how it was done.

Fabric Rolls for Top Layer of a Mattress. Brooklyn Bedding, Mesa, Arizona. May 2021.

I’ve share these last two pictures before but thought of them when I saw Cee’s picture.

Round Hay Bales. Neuman Ranch, Montana. August 2012.

See my original post with the theme of stack here.

Slide. Ankeny, Iowa. July 2019.

See my original post with more pictures of playground equipment here.

Challenge: Stack

Stack of Round Hay Bales. Neumann Ranch, Montana. August 2012.

The scale of a stack of round bales is tough to fathom so I left the front of Weenie Truck – Dad’s name for his small pick-up – in the frame when cropping the first picture to share for Frank’s stack challenge.

Here’s a different angle – two bales high and who knows how many bales long.

One last picture, showing my nephew – then about six feet tall – checking out the stacked bales.