Chapel Dedication
Racine, Wisconsin – Traveling Home – Indiana to Pennsylvania
Monday, October 12
Day Four of Four
Monday morning breakfast with Tom and Sonya, and their son Ben – who were gracious hosts.
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I was particularly interested in their greenhouses – Country Comfort Greenhouse – and learned that she is the official grower of almost 80,000 annuals for the Quilt Gardens.
I found this interesting information about her and the gardens:
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http://www.amishcountry.org/images/fck/File/Quilt%20Garden/2009_MasterGardenerGuidebook%204.pdf
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2009 Quilt Gardens Tour – Master Gardener Guide
It’s the first and only known Quilt Gardens Tour in the country. Beginning Memorial Day weekend through the first hard frost of fall, visitors can tour the gardens, which stretch across seven northern Indiana communities. In addition, 16 large-format murals – also painted in quilt patterns – will be on display throughout Elkhart County, about 110 miles east of Chicago, 150 miles north of Indianapolis and 140 miles south of Lansing, Michigan.
Sonya Miller, Official Grower, and her husband Tom are the main forces behind Country Comfort Greenhouse, a home based business that’s been functioning for 21 years. Country Comfort is the Official Grower of almost 80,000 annuals each year for the Quilt Gardens Tour. Sonya is instrumental in plant selection and provides advice for each official site to assist in determining pattern definition to enhance the quality visual experience of the Quilt Gardens Tour. Country Comfort also supplies town pots for four local communities.
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I wish we had more time to spend with them, but we had to head home, and they had work to do – she is still selling mums and Tom owns a franchise with Mr. Appliance.
We enjoyed a country drive through the Shipshewanna Amish area before getting back on I-80/I-90 and heading east.
Rachel and I enjoyed visiting and checking out the countryside from the backseat of their Buick – consequently all these photos are “drive-by shootings.”
After getting on I-80 in western Pennsylvania, we began seeing beautiful fall leaves.
I love car trips – and it was especially satisfying to see another chapel placed in service for TFC, spend time with the staff in that area, visit the Toledo chapel, see Merv and Sue Ann, learn to know Tom and Sonya, and most of all spend four relaxing days with Glenn and Rachel.
I feel blessed!
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