A Birthday Sandcastle…

Sometimes frosting just isn’t needed…

 

…if you have a fancy cake pan…and make Vanilla Blueberry Pound Cake…

 

and decorate it with turbinado sugar…that looks just like beach sand…

…and blue pennants made of ribbon…

…And eat it at the beach.

Portraits...

Another assignment for photography class was on taking portraits.  Mr and Mrs R were kind enough to be my models for an afternoon.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I happily made my favorites of the day into a mosaic to join others at Mary's Mosaic Monday at  Little Red House...

Visiting Boston…

Before traveling to Maine Mr O , my sister, and I visited Mrs R while she was at work in the Boston Public Library…She works for the company that caters any events held there…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Her office is in the older part of the library…designed by McKim, Mead, and White, it was finished in 1895.  We enjoyed taking a self-guided tour of this beautiful building… and we think it would be a wonderful place to have a party!

The main staircase had a beautiful golden glow from the yellow marble…at one point there were architecture students sitting on the stairs drawing….Most visitors were taking pictures of the lions…

 

 

The Abbey Room is dark … with a mural painting, “The Quest of the Holy Grail”, surrounding the room…

 

The reading rooms …well they were just as quiet and peaceful as they were gorgeous…

Hidden in the center of the library is a courtyard…we bought lunch at the library’s Map Room Cafe and brought sandwiches outside by the fountain…Not only were visitors like myself taking pictures, but a professional photographer was there meeting several clients…it was fun to watch him and his assistant while we ate…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Right next door to the library is the Prudential Center…It was such a clear day we decided to go to the restaurant at the top for the view…and a Cosmopolitan…

I do think Mrs R has a very interesting and exciting job…

Bubbles…

Fun to play with…and fun to take pictures of…

Doesn’t this look like a thought bubble…or an idea?