What a beautiful picture to wake up to! Looks like daffodils, tulips, peonies. Love that twig basket. Thank you!
Mom always had those planted in the garden, no matter where we lived. She also always had iris, too. A favorite childhood memory is of her planting pansies in the Spring.
I'm itching to plant something. It was in the 70's last week. Today, the high is 34. Guess I'll have to be patient (not my forte').
Good Morning Surfie, so glad that you enjoyed the flower pic. They are beautiful. We do have a patio area at the apartment where we can plant a few things. Someone put in some lettuce. Froggy wants to start some sweetpeas.
Guess we need to enjoy those sunny warm days when they come along. The weather is so changeable this time of year.
One of these days I'll have a spot where I can grow something. I don't know where, when or what, but it'll happen.
I thought I'd sleep later than 8am this morning, but I slept late enough. Even the cats took pity on me. Either that, or they couldn't get me up at 6am so they gave up. They've chosen their sun spots now and are snoozing.
While I ate my big salad yesterday afternoon, I popped in the DVD of Pride & Prejudice. It's the mini-series version done in 1994 or '95 with Colin Firth. My all time favorite! I never thought I'd care for any Mr. Darcy other than Laurence Olivier, but I fell in love with Colin and love him to this day. I hope I never hear what his politics are. I'm sure he's a lib of the Brit persuasion, but I don't want my fantasies ruined by confirming it. (Best way for that not to happen is to stay away from all interviews. Otherwise, I'm sure to hear that he adores Obama and thought GWB was the devil.) I sat in my chair through 2 discs and 6 hours. Big bowl of salad and big bowl of popcorn. Sigh.
“Notre Dame was very well-known for the sound of its bells, that is, until the French Revolution,” says Paul Bergamo, president of Cornille-Havard, the country’s most renowned bell foundry. Shortly after Marie Antoinette was hauled off to the guillotine, Bergamo says, the young republic ordered the removal of some 10,000 bells from the belfries of France to be melted down and made into cannons and coins. Not even Notre Dame, France’s most celebrated cathedral, was spared from this act of state-sanctioned vandalism." (snip)
"In the coming days, Emmanuel will get new company, a set of nine new bells, eight of which were cast by Cornille-Havard. They will ring from the 850-year-old cathedral in time for Palm Sunday Mass."
HEAR AND SEE THEM ON YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtYh-lBBbHQ
MORE OF THE STORY... For centuries, bellfounding was an imprecise process, done by eye, hand, and ear, with varying results. The problem was that once a several-ton bell is cast you could do very little to smooth the frequent tuning irregularities that arose from the final shape, Bergamo says. It is possible to grind out further the hollow of the bell, a process called “machining,” but not too much or it will weaken and crack. “With machining you can get a lower note, you can correct small defects, but you cannot correct everything. And you cannot get a higher note,” he says. “By working with computer modeling we can get closer and closer to the final note we wanted before we even cast the bell.”
What a beautiful picture to wake up to! Looks like daffodils, tulips, peonies. Love that twig basket. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteMom always had those planted in the garden, no matter where we lived. She also always had iris, too. A favorite childhood memory is of her planting pansies in the Spring.
I'm itching to plant something. It was in the 70's last week. Today, the high is 34. Guess I'll have to be patient (not my forte').
Have a wonderful Sunday!
Good Morning Surfie, so glad that you enjoyed the flower pic. They are beautiful. We do have a patio area at the apartment where we can plant a few things. Someone put in some lettuce. Froggy wants to start some sweetpeas.
ReplyDeleteGuess we need to enjoy those sunny warm days when they come along. The weather is so changeable this time of year.
One of these days I'll have a spot where I can grow something. I don't know where, when or what, but it'll happen.
ReplyDeleteI thought I'd sleep later than 8am this morning, but I slept late enough. Even the cats took pity on me. Either that, or they couldn't get me up at 6am so they gave up. They've chosen their sun spots now and are snoozing.
While I ate my big salad yesterday afternoon, I popped in the DVD of Pride & Prejudice. It's the mini-series version done in 1994 or '95 with Colin Firth. My all time favorite! I never thought I'd care for any Mr. Darcy other than Laurence Olivier, but I fell in love with Colin and love him to this day. I hope I never hear what his politics are. I'm sure he's a lib of the Brit persuasion, but I don't want my fantasies ruined by confirming it. (Best way for that not to happen is to stay away from all interviews. Otherwise, I'm sure to hear that he adores Obama and thought GWB was the devil.) I sat in my chair through 2 discs and 6 hours. Big bowl of salad and big bowl of popcorn. Sigh.
NEW BELLS FOR NOTRE DAME ~ PALM SUNDAY: part 1
ReplyDelete“Notre Dame was very well-known for the sound of its bells, that is, until the French Revolution,” says Paul Bergamo, president of Cornille-Havard, the country’s most renowned bell foundry. Shortly after Marie Antoinette was hauled off to the guillotine, Bergamo says, the young republic ordered the removal of some 10,000 bells from the belfries of France to be melted down and made into cannons and coins. Not even Notre Dame, France’s most celebrated cathedral, was spared from this act of state-sanctioned vandalism."
(snip)
"In the coming days, Emmanuel will get new company, a set of nine new bells, eight of which were cast by Cornille-Havard. They will ring from the 850-year-old cathedral in time for Palm Sunday Mass."
READ MORE: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-22/notre-dames-new-bells-will-peal-on-palm-sunday-in-paris
NEW BELLS FOR NOTRE DAME ~ PALM SUNDAY: part2
ReplyDeleteHEAR AND SEE THEM ON YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtYh-lBBbHQ
MORE OF THE STORY...
For centuries, bellfounding was an imprecise process, done by eye, hand, and ear, with varying results. The problem was that once a several-ton bell is cast you could do very little to smooth the frequent tuning irregularities that arose from the final shape, Bergamo says. It is possible to grind out further the hollow of the bell, a process called “machining,” but not too much or it will weaken and crack. “With machining you can get a lower note, you can correct small defects, but you cannot correct everything. And you cannot get a higher note,” he says. “By working with computer modeling we can get closer and closer to the final note we wanted before we even cast the bell.”
READ MORE: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-03-22/notre-dames-new-bells-will-peal-on-palm-sunday-in-paris
That's a lovely story about the bells, Sis!
ReplyDeleteI didn't sleep at all last night, so today we're taking it easy. 'Woggy didn't have a good night either.
ReplyDeleteDa Wolf did, though... of course.