Tribute to Mom and Dad, Number 2

I still have a number of plaid, flannel shirts that my dad used to wear and a number of my mom's table linens and hankies, but I am starting to make progress and cutting into them to make tribute quilts. I found some interesting things on the back of some of these photos and included them in the collage--like my dad standing in front of a church with "Got my back to the wall waiting for the firing squad - 6-9-39". I wondered where us Radigan's got our weird sense of humor. Another reads "to the nicest girl in Michigan, Terry 9-2-38"

After moving to Washington, D.C., my dad took many many pictures of the Washington monuments and landmarks. I only chose to include a Cherry blossom tree in this tribute quilt because it was something my parents always took us to see at the Tidal Basin. Even back in the thirty's those trees struck them as beautiful enough to take so many black and white pictures of them. We continue to enjoy those trees every Spring.

I have a few other projects to work on so won't be posting any more of these tribute quilts until I get caught up. Hope you are enjoying the winter of 2014. It has already become a memorable one.