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Tag Archives: Frank Lloyd Wright
The Art Museum of My Heart
I am certainly no painter ~ unless you count painting the rooms in my house. When I was in high school and college, my family took us to art museums on days when they had free admission. It was then … Continue reading
Sunday Post: Staircase
Jake’s idea this week is Stairway! http://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/sunday-post-stairway/ Doesn’t that just make you think of all kinds of things? It makes me think of Frank Lloyd Wright’s 4″ risers on staircases, pictured here. It also makes me think of the amazing staircases … Continue reading
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Tagged Frank Lloyd Wright, Gone With the Wind, stairway, Stairway to Heaven, Sunday Post
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Through
Weekly Photo Challenge: Through. The WordPress weekly photo challenge for 3/23 was Through. this photo was taken through an arch area at Taliesin West, designed by world-famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Design
Jake’s Sunday Challenge this week focuses on Design…it could be interior design, architecture, or any number of things. http://jakesprinters.wordpress.com/2012/03/10/sunday-post-design/ Now I recently saw Taliesin West~ which is the school of architecture that the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright founded. I am … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Distorted
Weekly Photo Challenge: Distorted.The challenge this week is the topic of distorted. When I think of that word I initially think of something misshapen or perhaps grotesque. In light of my recent tour of Taliesin West~ designed by the brilliant … Continue reading
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Tagged Frank Lloyd Wright, house, Taliesin West, weeklyphotochallenge
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Are you a palace?
John Donne wrote: “Be thine own palace, or the world’s thy jail”. When I first read that, it seemed very conceited to me. I thought, “what?? be my own palace? what about God? What about others’?” Then I realized….If God … Continue reading
Homesickness and Frank Lloyd Wright
I am sure that almost everyone has been homesick and one point or another. Perhaps when spending the night at a friend’s house or a relative’s house you were overcome with homesickness. I know when my cousin Kris stayed with … Continue reading
Mom said: Learn something new every day
My mom (and my dad) told us to learn something new every day. At dinner we were required to share, one at a time, what new thing we had learned that day. A shrug and saying “i learned nothing”, was … Continue reading



