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Morning Glories in the sun....
A portion of a beautifully embroidered silk kimono.....
An old-fashioned rose
26 September 2009
Potpourri
On Yarmouth Street in Norfolk near the Chrysler Museum, there are real gaslight lanterns.... A remnant of a time long past
Morning Glories in the sun....
A portion of a beautifully embroidered silk kimono.....
An old-fashioned rose
Morning Glories in the sun....
A portion of a beautifully embroidered silk kimono.....
An old-fashioned rose
07 September 2009
The Chrysler Museum of Art
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In Norfolk on the Hague, a body of water in the Ghent section of the city (named for the Belgian city where the peace treaty was signed after the War of 1812) is a world-class Art Museum. The Chrysler Museum of Art is an outstanding museum with an incredible collection of works from many periods. The Hague area boasts many beautiful old houses, some of them mansions, and an afternoon here is well worth the visit. Not only will you be enriched by the art, you will find that admission is entirely free to this wonderful museum.
These photos were all taken at my recent visit. Some of the shots I am VERY proud of! Others, out of focus in the dim light, at least give you an idea of what the museum has to offer. I hope you will enjoy this photographic visit!
The collection of American artists is particularly wonderful.
(I was particularly sad not to be able to capture the amazing quality of this Renoir!)
Their glass art collection is outstanding!
This stunned me--a lifesize piece of glass art of a woman reposing.
In Norfolk on the Hague, a body of water in the Ghent section of the city (named for the Belgian city where the peace treaty was signed after the War of 1812) is a world-class Art Museum. The Chrysler Museum of Art is an outstanding museum with an incredible collection of works from many periods. The Hague area boasts many beautiful old houses, some of them mansions, and an afternoon here is well worth the visit. Not only will you be enriched by the art, you will find that admission is entirely free to this wonderful museum.
These photos were all taken at my recent visit. Some of the shots I am VERY proud of! Others, out of focus in the dim light, at least give you an idea of what the museum has to offer. I hope you will enjoy this photographic visit!
The collection of American artists is particularly wonderful.
(I was particularly sad not to be able to capture the amazing quality of this Renoir!)
Their glass art collection is outstanding!
This stunned me--a lifesize piece of glass art of a woman reposing.Cotton Blossoms
In summer the cotton buds open to reveal the most beautiful flowers.....
Some of these blossoms are a lovely pink before they fully open, but all of the open flowers are palest pink to creamy white, some with tinges of pink blush at their edges.....
Mom says when she was young, cotton plants were much taller. The new varieties have been developed to be shorter so they can be harvested by machine instead of by hand. They are also sprayed at the end of the flowering season (a time which we are now approaching in Virginia) so the sun can get down into the inside of the bushy plant to help develop the bolls of cotton that pop out as the flower petals fall. All parts of the cotton plant are toxic to humans as food, except the processed cottonseed oil. Cotton has always been one of the most important crops in the South, and we all adore our 100% cotton clothing and sheets and towels. It's a fascinating plant! There are even rare varieties that actually grow in COLORS...that's right, the cotton in the bolls is not snowy white, but pale blues and pinks. And it is a natural phenomenon, not dyed! I saw some when I lived in Texas. But all our Virginia cotton is a lovely snow white, and in another month, the field will be brown plants dotted with the "snow" of hundreds of open bolls. Here is a view of what the fields look like now. This loveliness makes one want to plant a few in the flower bed, doesn't it!? :-)..........
Some of these blossoms are a lovely pink before they fully open, but all of the open flowers are palest pink to creamy white, some with tinges of pink blush at their edges.....
Mom says when she was young, cotton plants were much taller. The new varieties have been developed to be shorter so they can be harvested by machine instead of by hand. They are also sprayed at the end of the flowering season (a time which we are now approaching in Virginia) so the sun can get down into the inside of the bushy plant to help develop the bolls of cotton that pop out as the flower petals fall. All parts of the cotton plant are toxic to humans as food, except the processed cottonseed oil. Cotton has always been one of the most important crops in the South, and we all adore our 100% cotton clothing and sheets and towels. It's a fascinating plant! There are even rare varieties that actually grow in COLORS...that's right, the cotton in the bolls is not snowy white, but pale blues and pinks. And it is a natural phenomenon, not dyed! I saw some when I lived in Texas. But all our Virginia cotton is a lovely snow white, and in another month, the field will be brown plants dotted with the "snow" of hundreds of open bolls. Here is a view of what the fields look like now. This loveliness makes one want to plant a few in the flower bed, doesn't it!? :-)..........
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