Lorene's Country Graphics
cows, gingham & sunflowers ~ free for your home page
come on in, the coffee's on
Howdy, neighbor, and welcome to my kitchen!
I'm Lorene Galyean. My husband Percy and I have farmed wheat and milo in south central
Kansas for thirty-one years. We milked a few cows, too, up until 1988, and I cried the
day the trailer took them down the road. That's why there are cows all over this page.
I have never stopped missing those silly girls.
Our son Anthony set up this computer for us the Christmas before last, then went back
to school and left me to it. I learned Paint Shop Pro from him by e-mail, one question
at a time. (He says I sent him forty-some e-mails that first month. I say he exaggerates.)
I've done tole painting for years, cows on milk cans and sunflowers on everything that
holds still, so it wasn't much of a jump to paint them with a mouse. It's a lot less
messy and Percy doesn't have to smell the turpentine.
Everything on this page is free for your home page. Help yourself, there's
plenty. I only ask a few things, and they're written out on the recipe card below.
The Pantry Shelf
Right-click to save (Mac folks, click and hold)
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Red Gingham
20 x 20, 147 bytes. Just like the tablecloth at every church supper you ever went to.
Save it by right-clicking a bare spot of the page and choosing Save Background As. |
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Sunflower Bullet
16 x 16, 146 bytes. Our state flower, and my favorite. Put one in front of each link. |
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Patchwork Buttons
Home, E-mail and Next, each 100 x 30, about 1,600 bytes apiece. A cream patch with a
gingham border and a little line of stitching, like a potholder. |
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Clementine the Cow
88 x 31, 1,902 bytes. My link button. Watch her a minute and she'll wink at you. I named
her after the best milker we ever had, who also winked, or at least I always thought so. |
Cow Print Ribbon, 400 x 12, 503 bytes.
With a sunflower and two red hearts tied on in the middle. |
Recipe for Using My Graphics
From the Kitchen of: Lorene
Serves: one pretty home page
Prep time: about ten minutes
Ingredients
The graphics you like, saved to your own computer
1 link back to my page
A good pinch of manners
Directions
1. Right-click each picture you want and choose Save Image As (or Save Picture
As if you have Internet Explorer). Put them all in one folder so you can find them.
2. Upload them to your own home page space. Please don't make your page fetch them off
of mine. It slows us both down, and if I ever move you'll be left with little broken
boxes.
3. Stir in a link back to Lorene's Country Graphics. Clementine the cow is best, but a
line of words is fine too.
4. Don't serve them on pages with cussing or ugliness. Keep it where you'd let the
grandkids look.
5. Don't pass them off as your own or bundle them up to give away somewhere else.
That's like entering somebody else's pie at the fair.
6. Drop me a line and tell me where they ended up. I do love to go visiting.
Cook's note: gingham is pretty but it's hard on the eyes behind words. Set your
writing inside a cream-colored table the way this page does, and it'll be as easy to
read as a church bulletin.
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Anthony wrote out this bit of HTML for folks who want a plain words link back to me.
Copy it and paste it into your page:
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<a href="/Heartland/Pointe/6670/">Country graphics by Lorene</a>
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If you want Clementine instead, save her and put her picture inside that link. If
you don't know how, write me and I'll get Anthony to send you the whole thing.
Still in the Oven
Hens & Chicks. A speckled hen for a link button and a row of chicks for a
divider. The chicks keep coming out looking like lemons.
Quilt Blocks. A Nine-Patch background in blues. For the quilters.
Christmas in the Country. Red barn in the snow. I'd like to have this one up
by Thanksgiving so folks have time to fix up their pages.
Kind Words in the Mailbox
"I put your sunflowers on our 4-H club page and the kids voted them in over
the balloons I had before. Thank you!" ~ a club leader in Nebraska
"My mother is 81 and grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. When I showed her
your cow she laughed out loud." ~ a daughter in Oregon
Well, that one made me cry, so I guess we're even.
You are neighbor number
   
to stop by the kitchen since Mother's Day 1998
Write me at [email protected]
Last updated 8/29/99
Graphics © 1998-1999 Lorene Galyean
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