Day 3822: Quilts and Eggs.

 

    

"Panic": junk mail collage, acrylics

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2GN2S ...

THE SECRET LANGUAGE
HIDDEN IN HER QUILTS 

 

 

Harriet Powers, born enslaved, made quilts like no other. One hangs in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Another is at the Smithsonian. Stitched in her works was a kind of secret language—a testimony, a powerful creative vision. She left her mark, The Color Purple novelist Alice Walker writes, “in the only materials she could afford.”    The Pictoral Quilt: Despite faded colors, the brilliance of this Harriet Powers quilt shines through. The blanket’s 15 panels depict Bible stories alongside events of her life & times.     * This quilt is at the Skirball Museum in LA, in the quilt exhibit until March     Read more: here

Egg prices have soared 60% in a year.

As demand for eggs has risen, production in theU.S. has slumped because of the ongoing bird, or "avian," flu epidemic. Nearly 58 million birds have been infected with avian flu as of January 6, the USDA said, making it the deadliest outbreak in U.S. history. Infected birds must be slaughtered, causing egg supplies to fall and prices to surge.

Egg prices in December rose 60% from a year earlier, according to Consumer Price Index data released Thursday. Across U.S cities, the average price for a dozen large grade A eggs was $4.25 last month, according to figures from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

"I've seen customers gravitate from buying organic eggs now to more conventional eggs, and specifically now, the half dozen. Prices have quadrupled in about six or seven months, said store owner Jose Filipe.

 

 

 

 

A 6-minute video, Overcomer, here.

 

Just because ...

 

Major Mitchell's Pink Cockatoo

 

Smiles for Saturday ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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