Photos taken in the Welcome Center, the first LEED® certified visitor center in a public garden.
Here, Dale Chihuly’s Goldenrod, Teal and Citron Chandelier, designed and created exclusively for Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, heralds the beauty that awaits inside of the glasshouse.
Around the walls of the welcome center are these vivid framed art designs.
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
It’s prom season and my youngest granddaughter is off to have fun and make memories.
The first one (in pink) was to her date’s senior prom last week.
The second (in ivory) was to her senior high school prom yesterday.
“Some hats can only be worn if you’re willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you’re only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you.”
― Neil Gaiman
“In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.”
― Kahlil Gibran
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch
“When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
– Aldo Leopold
“When we are surrounded by what we love, we have joy”
Francine Gassette
Some of these photos have been posted before but I thought they fit the challenge for this week.
What enveloped means to me is to be surrounded by all things that are good for the body, soul and spirit.
The water that purifies
“The fire that burns within us
The earth that brings joy all around us.”
Francine Gassette
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For Cee’s ODD BALL PHOTO CHALLENGE this week I choose to show some of the odd things I found in a bicycle shop a few years ago.
See how many odd things you can find that you wouldn’t expect to see in this kind of shop. Hint: Look in the background of some photos.
I love taking photos, as a hobby. I usually don’t perform any editing except to brighten or convert my photos to sepia or black and white.
I was playing around with Photo Shop and this is what happened during my experiment. What do you think?
Pittsburgh has Three Rivers, but no beach. What a joy for the children to arrive at Point State Park in downtown Pittsburgh to fine this man-made beach just for them.
This post was created for Where’s my backpack? Travel Theme Challenge: Youngters. Click on highlighted for more entries.
While visiting the Cameron Trading Post in Cameron Arizona, I had the opportunity to witness the art of rug weaving in action with rug weaver Elsie Gander as she weaves Navajo rugs demonstrating this intricate art. As well as beautifully detailed Hopi Kachina dolls by carvers such as Touchoney Slim. Plus an authentic Native American Headdress.
The trading post also houses fine Native American Indian jewelry, historic and contemporary.
In the oldest frontier tradition, trading posts were the common ground where culture, art and community met and flourished.
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BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
Where you stop making a living and you start making a life
Francine In Retirement 