This is where the Quilter and the Landscape Architect in me collide. The quilter sees this image and immediately responds: "What a beautiful quilt!" The Landscape Architect immediately thinks: "Irrigation!" The Landscape Architect wins, but the quilter wants to sew it up.
It's a photo of Finney County, Kansas, and was part of an Earth Day slide show on Space.com that included beautiful images of earth from space. This land that was once prairie and dry much of the time is now a beautiful patchwork of green due to the conversion to farmland made possible by irrigation systems, mostly center-pivot systems.
Wouldn't this make a beautiful quilt?! I really like the offset angle at which the land was captured. The consistent same-sized squares are quilt-ready, and the simple variety of colors of green and shape and size and configuration of the circles makes it dance.
I long to make quilts like this - from aerial photos: photos taken from space of cities full of blocks ready to be expressed in fabric (Chicago is to me one of the most beautiful), rivers winding through still-empty lands, the textures of mountains in the deep shadows of sunrise. I suppose this is where the quilter, Landscape Architect, and lover of all things space collide.
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