Part of the dinosaur exhibit
Gorgeous garden wedding with the tables in the middle of a pond!
Water sphere
Yellow themed garden
Waiting at the station-silly people!
Mar11
Category Archives: local interest
Mar11
Philly Flower Show-127 photos later
We had a nice time at the flower show today. We got to eat at the Reading Terminal Market and utilize the new camera to it’s fullest capacity. I won’t show you all 120+ photos, but here are a few of my favorites:
Brian and me at the entrance to ‘The Legends of Ireland’ Flower show. Mom and Sean were with us and he took this photo. (Um, Di pull your top down in the front there!)
A gorgeous arrangement and silver-what a combo!
Where we ate lunch as viewed from the Convention Center.
Mar3
Looks what’s at the Flower Show!
Someone from my hometown owns these critters! I hope I can see them in person at the Flower show! The theme is Ireland, but the dinosaur exhibit got ‘best of show’. 
From the PFS site:
Who thought the Flower Show could be so…ferocious? These life-like dinosaurs are the same ones used on a promotional tour of the popular Jurassic Park movies and now they’re here at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
Theresa Rowan of J. Franklin Styer Nurseries says that designing a prehistoric playground for these creatures was a far cry from Styer’s first Philadelphia Flower Show exhibit over 100 years ago. Says Theresa, “Back then, it was just an arrangement of mums!”
Feb23
Lake Stitcher and I are on parallel planes
Lee over at Lake Stitcher also grew up in Pennsylvania, but further northeast from me. Every place I mentioned this week, she had been there and could relate. I thought that was pretty neat. She even went to the Villas in NJ and my sister-in-law’s mom also has a house down there. When Lee mentioned that she knows the person who owned Poor Richard’s Inn down in Cape May, I thought that was more that coincidence. I mean of all the places down there! I’ll mention a few places and let’s see if she’s been to: King of Prussia mall and Valley Forge National Park. I bet she has!
Have a great weekend!
Feb19
The Mercer Museum
Up in Bucks County, a few hours away, is a wonderful museum located in Doylestown. This area is one of my favorites and the museum is a ‘must see’ for those exploring Bucks (along with New Hope). I’ve been there twice, as has Brian. We took Sean up there a few years ago on his birthday. Instead of having parties, we take day trips for our birthdays. Mine are usually to either Dover, DE or New Hope.
Henry Mercer collected artifacts from all over the country and built this humongous structure to house it all. Each floor has several different areas of interest displayed in glass encased rooms. I know I mentioned this before, but it’s really a cool place. How many Conestoga wagons does one see in our lifetime, especially ones hanging from a ceiling! The one room with the medical instruments (if you can call most of them that) was frightening and I’m so glad I live in modern day American. We actually walked under gallows-chilling.
So if you get a chance to explore PA., drop by the Mercer Museum.
Feeling better-went looking for tummy med and found Equalactin and that seems to have made the burn go away. I had other stronger stuff but it was all expired. Most of thet time I try mint or ginger first before resorting to medicine.
Feb2
Early spring?
Old Phil the groundhog, up in Punxsutawney, PA didn’t see his shadow, so that may mean we have an early spring this year. With the rate we are going, it seems we are just ‘catching up’ to winter. Next week is suppose to be a doozie-arctic cold.
I’ve been a bit blue because of an accident that happened last Friday. A young lady named Blair, barely 20 yrs old was killed in a car accident on the next road down, one of the roads we all travel all the time. We know her boyfriend from church. Blair was in the class under Sean and he really didn’t know her. Her parents wrote a lovely statement in her obituary. I couldn’t get over it-so heartfelt and an everlasting tribute to Blair.
I knew Barbaro the race horse would be all over the local papers. There are some great stories about him.
I want to thank all you bloggie people who are stopping by here. I hope you come back again. I’m glad you like my music too. That is a fun music site and I recommend it. I’ll be changing the jaunty tune soon, but it seemed perfect to pep us up from this blah weather.
I need to go shopping or something. I failed miserably in the bread baking department yesterday. I tried a recipe and the bread didn’t rise. I used all purpose flour and even warmed up the milk and butter a little-not too much. Maybe my yeast was too cold-it had been in the frig. It needs to ‘wake up’ first I guess.
Have a great weekend!
Jan31
Want some?
Excuse my paper plate…
Just like what my grandmom use to make-creamed dried beef. I think most people know what it is-dried beef cooked in butter and then doused with flour-you make like a roux. Finally the milk is added. Serve it over toast with lots of pepper. My choice of beverage-root beer! It’s a Pennsylvania treat for sure. Others-scrapple-made out of weird piggy or turkey’leftovers’, and I did eat it down the shore; cornmeal mush which is only sold in the winter in these parts and something Lee over at Lake Stitcher brought up-Taylor’s Pork roll. Such diet defying foods. What I made for Sean and me-the creamed dried beef had a bit of butter, but I used wheat bread and low fat milk.
The bread maker machine is on! It works-so far. I’m making Italian herb bread from a mix. It looks like it is rising pretty good. : )
Here’s the bread! It rose pretty well and had partial collapse of the top when it was baking. Sean couldn’t wait to dive in and it’s really good!
Jan29
In memory of Barbaro
3.5 year old Barbaro was euthanized today. What a gallant struggle.
Barbaro won four of his five career starts and over $1m in prize money.
He first caught the public imagination by winning the Kentucky Derby by nearly seven lengths – the biggest margin in 60 years.
When he broke his leg two weeks later, more than $1m was raised for a fund in his honor to help other animals/horses with similar injuries that he had. Christmas songs were written about him.
Here’s a timeline of what Barbaro went throught these last 8.5 months at the New Bolton Center.
…Barbaro no longer is bearing weight on the right hind leg he shattered eight months ago in the Preakness Stakes after undergoing surgery Saturday to place two steel pins through a bone. The biggest fear is that the bone bearing the weight — the cannon bone — can break. From NBC 10 news
Barbaro has taken up residence a few miles from here where he still struggles to survive. When he first was brought to the animal hospital near Kennett Square, Sean and I drove by to see the signs left on the outside fence of encouragement, etc. I bet they are still there. That horse is surely loved around the world.
Jan28
The Royals in Philly-like a 3rd grade class trip
It is almost like the same kinds of trips all us kids from the Philadelphia burbs would take in elementary school. One time we would visit Independence Hall and see the Liberty Bell (it’s been moved to another location). Then we went to the Academy of Nature Sciences or the Franklin Institute. My least favorite trip-riding ‘The Good Ship Lollipop’ down the Delaware River. It was a cold early spring day (if I remember correctly) and I got a little seasick.
So Charles and Camilla are hopping all over the city (video) seeing the sites, painting with kids, and maybe even trying a ‘Royal Philly cheesesteak’ (I’m trying to find the ingredients). They are staying at the Four Seasons. I believe they went to a concert at the Academy of Music (where I saw The Carpenters when I was 13 or 14) in honor of the Academy’s 150th anniversary. Tom Brokaw was the host. Brian told me the necklace Camilla had on was worth 25 million or some exuburant price. I still think she is one lucky lady-not so much for marrying Charles, but just because. ; ) I’d like to feel like ‘the upper crust’ of society just one time.
Jan19
Amazing Bird Photographer
I was reading The Kennett Paper (local weekly) that had a story on Kim Steininger, a local award winning bird photographer taking the big prize from the National Wildlife Federation in 2005. You have to see her amazing owl shot- it’s swoping toward her! Kim does volunteer work at the Tri-State Bird Rescue as seen below helping out a Red-throated loon. Click photo to see the loon.
Collages & Creative Goodness 