The North Dakota Wild Prairie Rose

Namaskar

('Hello' in West Bengal, India)

Today I am going to be covering the State Flower of North Dakota,

and some fun trivia facts,

gorgeous photos

and who knows what else!

You'll never guess what the state flower is...

Oh, yeah, the Wild Prairie Rose.... guess I said that at the beginning!

Of course, it had to be a rose,

as that is the flower of the month!

The correct, botanical name is

rosa arkansana

I also found some sites that list it as:

rosa blanda

I'm going with rosa arkansana, as that was by far the most frequently listed.

Enough technical stuff, let's get on to the fun!

Here is a coloring page with

 both North Dakota's State Flower, and State Bird:

When I started researching the wild prairie rose, North Dakota, etc.

I found something really cool!

We have a pair of Western Meadowlarks that are nesting at the corner of our roof!! 

Now, ours don't look near this fat, but everything else is right.

They both have beautiful yellow underbellies and under wings,

along with a little on top of their head.

No dull female colors for this pair!

http://www.fourwivesprework.com/

Before this, we didn't know what kind of bird we had.

I think that's cool!

http://www.papercutting.blogspot.com/

I found this wonderful papercutting site, which offers each state and bird, with a silhouette of the state in the middle.

Very clever.

Very cool.

I guess cool is the word for the day....

Next up, a lovely decoupaged wood frame with probably flower gift wrap, although you could certainly make this with dried and pressed flowers, torn catalog listings, botanical print old books,

dictionary definitions, etc.

This particular frame is for sale on etsy,

but I do not have the creator's shop name.

Let me know if you know who I should credit, please.

dominoes@myinkspired.com

How did you make out with the New York famous people quiz?

I find biographies just fascinating.

Do yourself a favor, if you haven't read a biography or an autobiography lately, do it!

Ready for some North Dakota trivia?

AAA (American Auto Association) rates North Dakota as

 the most affordable vacation state.

North Dakota (referred to from now on as 'ND')

 is also rated as the safest state to live in,

and the #1 state for high school completion rates! 

That's some pretty good PR going on there.

'Dakota' is derived from the Sioux word for "friend".

ND is home to many tribes of the Sioux nation,

notably Lakota, Dakota, Hunkpapa, Hidatsa +

Hunkpapa Sioux leader, Chief Sitting Bull,

surrendered at Fort Buford, ND,1881.

He was murdered Dec.15, 1890.

North Dakota was the original burial ground for him.

The International Peace Garden

is located on US (ND) and Canadian (Manitoba) borders.

State Motto:

Liberty and Union

Now and Forever

One and Inseparable

Great spelling word there - inseparable!



The Dakota Dinosaur Museum in Dickinson

holds the world's largest intact triceratops skull.

It weighs 1,500 pounds!

Okay, I just have to include this trivia fact:

Grand Forks, ND holds

the World's Largest French Fry Feed

 every year, during Potato Bowl USA.

In 2006 a new World Record was set

with 4,620 pounds of French fries

served at the French Fry Frenzy.

Around 10,000 people were served

about 113 gallons of ketchup also!

I bet the air smells like cooking oil for miles!

Lovely embroidery, courtesy of http://www.turkeyfeathers.typepad.com/

Next up is a peyote beading pattern.

You could make this

into a wall hanging, amulet necklace

or as a beaded 'patch' to be sewn on another item.

Wouldn't this be a gorgeous wedding gift, with the beaded pattern section sewn into the middle of a satin or taffeta pillow?

ND Trivia:

In 1877 there were strong efforts to make the Dakota Territory to become both as a single state, and as two separate states.

Sounds like a lot of high feelings in the air.

On November 2, 1889

both North and South Dakotas were admitted.

President Benjamin Harrison tried to obscure

the order in which the statehood proclamations were signed,

so the exact order of each state was unknown.

Things like that can be important, at the moment, for some people.

Because of alphabetical position,

North Dakota is considered to be the 39th state.

(You know, 'N' is before 'S'.)

I bet there are a LOT of interesting stories attached to that!

North Dakota is home

to more wildlife refuges than any other state.

North Dakota AMERICAN DREAM COME TRUE:

Lawrence Welk was born in Strasburg, ND.

This famous "Champagne Music Maker" went

from a simple sod house (preserved)

 to national television fame 

and on to his very own television program,

much beloved by many.

They still show re-runs of his shows!

This stained glass pattern is available from glasshauntauctivacommerce.com 

Famous actresses and singers born in ND:

Angie Dickinson

Peggy Lee

Ann Sothern

More famous people born in ND:

Louis L'Amour (author)

Sacagawea (Lewis and Clark interpreter)

Sondre Norheim (pioneer of modern skiing)

Leonard Peltier (American Indian Activist) 

Judge Ronald Davies -

(ordered integration of Little Rock Central High in the 1960's)

this photo shows the rose hips from the rosa arkansana

Well, I'm about North Dakota'd out.

Obviously there is tons more to the state,

but that's all for today, for me.

I hope you are starting to recognize the different roses.

There are literally hundreds of species and colors of Roses.

There are appoximately 1.2 BILLION roses produced annually.

I'm pretty sure that must be worldwide!

Feel free to send me some!!!

:0)

inkspired

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dominoes@myinkspired.com

http://www.inkspiredmusings.blogspot.com/

Wild Prairie Rose state flower of Iowa

Good day!

Canada, gardens, Epcot, WaltDisneyWorld, Florida, USA

Today I will be exploring

the official flower of June:

the Rose



The wild prairie rose, or rosa pratincola,

is the state flower of Iowa.

So, I will be exploring the prairie rose, and the state of Iowa.

The Iowa Legislature designated the Wild Rose as the official state flower in 1897. It was chosen for the honor because it was one of the decorations used on the silver service, which the state presented to the battleship USS Iowa that same year. Although no particular species of the flower was designated by the Legislature, the Wild Prairie Rose (Rosa Pratincola) is most often cited as the official flower.

Wild roses are found throughout the state and bloom from June through late summer. The flower, in varying shades of pink, is set off by many yellow stamens in the center.

Donna Reed (January 27, 1921 – January 14, 1986)

was an American film and television actress. She was born in Denison, IA (abbreviation for Iowa).

c.1917

Glenn Miller (1904 - 1944) Bandleader and Composer of many famous songs including “In the Mood”, and “Moonlight Serenade”; born in Clarinda, IA. He disappeared over the English Channel in late 1944.

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859 - 1947) She led the campaign that ended with the 19^th Amendment to the Constitution allowing women to vote; lived in Charles City. In 1919, Carrie Chapman Catt led an army of vote-less women to pressure Congress to pass the constitutional amendment giving them the right to vote. Due at least in part to her organization and leadership, the bill became law within eighteen months. With the battle that had consumed nearly all of her time and energy for almost half her life won, Catt went on to devote the next 25 years to work for peace as the basis of human rights. Catt was one of the best-known women in America during the first half of the 20th century. In spite of this, her contributions have largely been obscured by history.

Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005) Comedian that hosted The Tonight Show for 30 years; born in Corning, IA.

Here is a simple (!) scherensnitte design. I think the flower looks like a wild prairie rose.

If  you haven't changed your x-acto blade recently, or after a few cuttings, do it now! I am always amazed how much easier the cutting goes with a fresh blade!

Tip:

Store your dull blades in a film canister, bandaid tin, or baby food jar with a lid.

Throw them in the trash this way,

and you won't have any accidental rips

 in your trash bag (or arms!).

Same method works for used sewing needles.

 c.1919

I discovered there actually is a rose called 'China Rose',

but I thought this one looked close enough to a wild prairie rose

to include it today!

Ann Landers, columnist, Sioux City, IA. Ann Landers was a pen name created by Chicago Sun-Times advice columnist Ruth Crowley in 1943 and taken over by Eppie Friedman in 1955. For 56 years, the Ask Ann Landers syndicated advice column was a regular feature in many newspapers across North America. Due to this popularity, 'Ann Landers', though fictional, became something of a national institution and cultural icon.

  vintage postcard

Next up is the Iowa official state song.

“Song of Iowa” is sung to the tune of "Tannenbaum".

Adopted as official state song June 20, 1949

Written by S.H.M. Byers

“Song of Iowa”

You asked what land I love the best, Iowa, tis Iowa,

The fairest State of all the west, Iowa, O! Iowa,

From yonder Misissippi's stream

To where Missouri's waters gleam

O! fair it is as poet's dream, Iowa, in Iowa.

See yonders fields of tasseled corn, Iowa in Iowa,

Where plenty fills her golden horn, Iowa in Iowa,

See how her wonderous praries shine.

To yonder sunset's purpling line,

O! happy land, O! land of mine, Iowa, O! Iowa.

And she has made whose laughing eyes, Iowa, O! Iowa.

To him whose loves were Paradise, Iowa, O! Iowa

O! happiest fate that e'er was known.

Such eyes to shine for one alone,

To call such beauty all his own. Iowa, O! Iowa

Go read the story of thy past. Iowa, O! Iowa

What glorious deeds, what fame thou hast! Iowa, O! Iowa

So long as time's great cycle runs,

Or nations weep their fallen ones,

Thou'lt not forget thy patriot sons, Iowa, O! Iowa.

S.H.M. Byers inspiration is recorded:

"At the great battle of Lookout Mountain I was captured (he was a Northerner, or Union soldier), in a charge, and taken to Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. (during the Civil War).

I was there seven months, in one room. The rebel bands often passed the prison, and for our discomfiture, sometimes played the tune 'My Maryland', set to southern and bitter words. Hearing it once through our barred window, I said to myself, 'I would like some day to put that tune to loyal words.'"

Many years later, in 1897, Mr. Byers carried out his wish and wrote a song to the music of Tannenbaum, the old German folk-song which the Confederates had used for My Maryland. The next night a French concert singer at the Foster Opera House in Des Moines sang the new song upon the request of Mr. Byers. The number was a great success and was encored again and again.

Iowa state bird (goldfinch) and state flower (prairie rose)

Iowa State Motto: Our liberties we prize and Our Rights We Will Maintain

nickname: Hawkeye State

Statehood: December 28, 1846, athe 29th state.

Origin of State's Name:  From the Dakota Indian word

"Ayuhwa," meaning "sleepy ones," referring to a tribe

living in that area.

beaded amulet purse by Suzanne Cooper. Design for sale.

I think this beaded rose would look like a wild prairie rose

if the center was yellow.

Suzanne Cooper has numerous bead designs available for purchase. She does great work!

Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964) The 31st President of the United States; born in West Branch, IA."Food will win the war"' proclaimed engineer-turned-bureaucrat Herbert Hoover, with a tinge of self-promotion, as head of the U.S. Food Administration, the WWI agency responsible for feeding America's troops overseas. While cloaking his efforts in the comforting language of voluntarism, the nervous, high-strung food czar, incessantly smoking Havana cigars, used a mix of price controls, exhortations, constraints and propaganda to seduce the general populace into eating less and reducing waste so our fighting forces could get adequate food supplies. As chairman of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, Hoover orchestrated a massive emergency operation that provided desperately needed food to millions of Belgian and French citizens trapped between the German army of occupation and the British naval blockade. Hoover became a hero to legions of American housewives, middle-class professionals and businessmen, though farmers, livestock producers and middlemen saw him as a meddling, insensitive outsider, an image that dogged the future president all the way to the White House.

 

This lovely embroidery pattern is from

www.turkeyfeathers.typepad.com.

I have enjoyed her patterns so much,that I have just added her to my list of blogs that I follow.

Check her out! You might like her blog also!

Adrian Constantine (Cap) Anson (1851 - 1922) Known as the greatest baseball player of the 19th century; born in Marshalltown, IA. Cap Anson’s plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame sums up his career with admirable simplicity: "The greatest hitter and greatest National League player-manager of the 19th century." Anson helped make baseball the national pastime. He hit over .300 in all but three of his major league seasons, and upon his retirement in 1897, he held the all-time records for games played, times at bat, hits, runs scored, doubles and runs batted in. For much of his career, he also served as manager of the National League’s Chicago White Stockings (now known as the Cubs), winning five pennants and finishing in the top half of the league in 15 of his 19 seasons.

c.1908

Cloris Leachman, actress, was born in Des Moines, IA.

Harry Reasoner, TV commentator, born in Dakota City (4/17/1923 - 8/06/1991) was an American journalist known for his inventive use of language as a TV commentator, and as a founder of the 60 Minutes program.

Okay, a little rant about blogspot righ now! It won't do the spacing between lines all of a sudden.

This really is not me!!!

Sheesh...

Here is a pretty scherensnitte design to cut into an

envelope. Just slip a piece of colored cardstock or your

colored card, and it will show to the front,

making this prairie rose design beautiful!

Meredith Willson (1902 - 1984) Writer of the famous Broadway musical The Music Man was born in Mason City, IA.

Andy Williams singer, born in Wall Lake, IA. Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams (born December 3, 1927) is an American pop singer. Andy Williams has recorded 18 Gold and three Platinum certified albums. When Ronald Reagan was president, he declared Andy's voice to be "a national treasure". He had his own popular TV variety show from 1962–71. He also owns his own theater, the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri.

Henry Wallace (1888 - 1965) Vice President of the United States and secretary of agriculture during the depression; born near Orient, IA.

Here's a nice simple coloring page for you:

Well, I'm getting frustrated with the spacing issue, so let's close with a few beautiful pictures of the Wild Prairie Rose:

Have a beautiful day!

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dominoes@myinkspired.com

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