From Lynne in Aug - American Gothic house

This is a beautiful shade of blue. It looks great with the elephant stamp - and I love the white ink. Blue and white is such a nice combination. As previously mentioned - blue is by far and away the most popular color - according to polls. It's sky and water and a whole lot more. While the photo below does not have any puffy white clouds - the little white house looks so nice with the blue sky.

This might be the first in a series that does not have a title, yet. While I was born in Montana and spent the K-12 years in Minnesota - I ended up in Iowa for my adult years and have a love/hate relationship with this state. Here I am in my golden years and it seems like a good time to reflect on the things I have truly enjoyed about Iowa. 

The fact that the American Gothic house is still standing makes me so happy. I visited the location back in the 80s or 90s when it was just a rental house with renters who put up with random tourists knocking on their front door. I know I took pictures - but somehow - they have disappeared.

Then - it was in danger of being lost - but the good citizens of Iowa pulled together and raised funds to preserve it. There is also a visitor's center. So, I am very happy that Iowa has enough good citizens to save something like the American Gothic house. And it's free. You just drive up and there it is. 

https://americangothichouse.org 

It's $5 to visit the visitors center. A bargain, by any standard. I remember when there was a deadline to raise funds to preserve it - and I think was Dec 31. At the time, I was freelancing and I told all my December clients that I was donating all of my Dec earnings to the American Gothic House - with the hopes that they, too, would donate. I was sooooo relieved that the funds were raised by the deadline. I feel like I have written about this already - and I searched - but did not find a previous post about it.