This was taken on one of our trips to Glasgow, a favourite city. We love the Rennie Mackintosh buildings and discovered this very pleasing sculpture on one of our many walks. The word Peace is all over it in many different languages. I’m sorry I don’t know the name of the sculptor. If any reader can help out, I’d be delighted.
Oct 2009 Glasgow peace sculpture
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Two glorious days of art! We spent the first day in the LA County Museum of Art with a quick visit to the Brea Tar Pits. Join us for a brief tour of delights and tomorrow come with us to the Craft and Folk Museum where we met two of the artists, Clare Graham and Danny Scheible.
La Gerbe by Henri Matisse, a ‘cut out’ in ceramics.
I loved the Standing Warrior, a Mexican sculpture from BC 200-300 AD.
Isn’t this painting by Mary Cassatt beautiful? I love the tenderness in the Mother’s face and the relaxed sleepy child.
This next piece fascinated me, such detail in the wood carving – Hollywood by Robert Witt Ames. Click on the photo and delight in all the humour and the detail.
We really enjoyed seeing so many school children in the gallery. Here some of them are sketching from David Hockney’s Mullholland Drive.
After lunch at the Gallery we walked to the nearby La Brea Tar Pits where natural asphalt has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years. Enlarge the photo to see the bubbles.
The outdoor sculpture garden was a haven of peace.
We finished the day with a Hollywood Cocktail and a walk back to our B&B, Cinema Suites, as the sun was setting.
Look carefully at these tree roots, seen on a street in Los Angeles, and see the sleepy baby dinosaur lost in her dreams.
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Our first Grand-baby was due in December 2008 and I spent many happy hours knitting many outfits in various sizes.
Oct 2008 Knitting for first Grandbaby
These signs are probably familiar to my US readers but to us they are new and entertaining.
Seen in the car park at the train station.
Seen in a bar.
Seen outside Trader Joe’s, a supermarket.
Seen in a front garden.
Colour kept on coming that October in our garden in South Yorkshire. I love the blue of the Ceratostigma Plumbaginoides and we have one in our current garden in Cornwall which is just as beautiful.
Oct 2007 @44
What a wonderful treat to be woken early to see the eclipse of the moon! Enjoy these photos with me as the eclipse happens, the moon sets and the sky lightens for the coming day.
Did I mention that we have left Atlanta today for three nights in Los Angeles en route to visit with my sister in Hawaii? What an adventure we are having!
1. Sitting on the front porch this morning a raucous chatter disturbed my reading. It was a Carolina Wren who stayed around for ages.
2. On the wall of the porch was a delightful creature, maybe a cricket but it was very quiet, looking like a corn cob. Can anyone help with its id?
What a cracking holiday we had in Canada as our colleagues were starting the Autumn term and we had retired! These very beautiful First Nations’ Totem Poles are in Stanley Park, Vancouver.
In Vancouver
1. Last night when we were having supper on the back porch, a beautiful green lizard nearly joined us.
2. Isn’t the Harley Davison just the most beautiful machine?
3. The evening sunlight lit up the Sugar Maple leaves to gold.
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