Snow fences, real and imagined

They appear in short bursts and clusters in areas prone to drifting -

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The old ones are wood; the newer ones harsher, metal -

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Other types of prairie fences are buck fences and barbwire fences, but those don't do much to stop snow drift.

My February journal quilt is titled Snow Fences - but the title is an afterthought. Or rather, a midway-thought, helping to shape something new out of something old -

The blue and white (you have to look hard for the white) hand embroidery is from a larger, longer piece that was abandoned goodness knows when. But it was just the right height for a High Horizon - needed just some machined quilting lines and some dry grass poking out of the snow. And some of those wispy prairie clouds.