“We lived in Little Elm many years ago, from 1963 to 1975, and I continue to reside close to Little Elm with my brother John. We have a lot of old friends here, and they call me on a daily basis. It hurts my heart to tell them that I really don't know anything else.”
Melina Smith
“A good population of elms remains in Langford due to the diligence of the residents in quickly removing the problem trees,”
Craig Brown
“Now that elms are rare, woolly apple aphids usually live on apples throughout the year.”
Janet Murphy
“The way was through lanes bounded by elms, which, though not yet in full leaf, were so closely interwoven in the bank with a luxurious growth of holly, that nothing was to be seen beyond them - till on a sudden the road, ascending a steep hollow way, opened to a kind of common field, forming the top of a high promontory, commanding an immense extent of the sea, and, for many miles, the indented cliffs of the western coast.”
Charlotte Smith
“The elm is scatteringits little loavesof sweet smellsfrom a white sky!”
William Carlos Williams
“The moans of doves in immemorial elms,/ And murmuring of innumerable bees.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“In this story, two founding members of Elm Creek Camp had to leave to pursue other interests. This is the search for two replacements. There are five new characters, four women and one man, who have different backgrounds and areas of quilt history.”
Jennifer Chiaverini