The quilt for this Friday’s theme ‘From The Ground’ is below the photo.

From The Ground
90mm f4 @ 1/500s ISO 800
I began by thinking this Friday’s theme ‘From The Ground’ was very similar to another theme ‘Looking Up’ until I found this cicarda shell clinging to a tree. Cicardas epitomise the Australian summer, the males shrill call rising above the human pain threshold by many decibels. The nymph emerges from underground in Oct/Nov (from the ground!)and crawls up the nearest tree(or post or wall) to emerge from its shell as a fully formed adult insect about 7cm (3″) long. As children we used to collect them and put them on the inside of the screen door to the house until mother discovered what we were doing. They have scientific names but we called them – green grocer, black prince, orange Monday, floury baker.

From The Ground Quilt
This Fridays quilt for the theme ‘From The Ground’ is supposedly a cicardas’ eye view of the grasses when it emerges from underground. It’s been a hectic couple of weeks and there is about two more 2 hours work to get this little quilt completely finished which won’t happen before I’m due to post – so here it is, a work in progress. Finally finished the little quilt and replaced the original post.