All Aboard!

Friday the 13th

Grillwork in a Harvard archway.

So much beauty

The Glass Flowers are still in the same wooden cases I saw them in nearly 50 years ago!

Delicacy

The delicacy of the flowers makes it hard to believe they are made of glass!

Happy Birthday, Listener!

Glass Water Lily

This Water Lily is the very flower I actually remember seeing as a child!

Window Box

Zoo Day

Relax.  This scorpion lives in Africa.  She is a large scorpion, slow-moving, and not very harmful at all.  My friend Janice, in the Peace Corps there, tells me the smaller they are, the more deadly they are. { ! }

   Today we are headed to the Stone Zoo in Massachusetts for fun with all three Granddaughters!!! :-)

The Autumn Joy Sedum is turning mauve...

Glass Cacti

These Cacti are made entirely of glass!  They are part of a 4300 piece collection of glass flowers created by father and son Blaschka, some parts hand blown and some heated and shaped. They were  created between 1889 and 1936 with very basic tools.  I will say more about them as I post more of them in coming days.  On exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, I recall seeing (and being enchanted with) these flowers as a child.  

How delightful to find and see them again recently!

Bee Balm in the Garden

View from inside the Covered Bridge

Goldenrod

Remember to give thanks, and to protect what others sacrificed for...

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On this day 6 years ago...

... our second Grand was born. ♥   WELCOME SEPTEMBER!

Good-bye, August!

Incentive

Berries and Barbed Wire

Farm in the Valley

Town Line