Artisphere



This weekend meant strolling down Main Street in my beloved Greenville at the annual Artisphere Festival. Rated as one of the top 20 arts festivals in the nation, Artisphere did not disappoint! Thousands of paintings, sculptures, jewelry and much more adorned the beautiful streets. There were many events for children as well in the Kidsphere section, inviting a new generation of future Artisphere participants to take part in the very family oriented event.

 There were glass blowers...very hot!

Street performers...very tall!

  

Adorable children enjoying the day!

Beautiful skylines...

Clever young men!

and a much needed pitstop at Carolina Alehouse!

After a couple of these...

I was brave enough to hold this!

Yep...that was a first!

It would have been nice if I had seen the sign that said "No Photographs" before I took these.  Instead of getting a slap on the wrist, I instead listened intently to the artist explain his work and was able to walk off without having to delete my shots!!

A stroll back to the car and a pretty evening sky made us appreciate that the nearby storms managed to skirt around us while we were once again able to enjoy our beautiful town!



Sunny with a Chance of Iceballs

Yesterday was a muggy, sunny day, the kind of day in the South that tends to produce late afternoon showers and thunderstorms.  Well... not only did we get showers and thunderstorms, we got golfballs falling from the sky!  I have never seen hail like this in my 42 years on Earth so I felt it was worthy of sharing on my blog!  Go ahead, ooh and ahh and wow yourselves silly because this did happen!

And if I could figure out how to make the video I took of this event smaller, I would have been able to post it as well as prove that I wasn't just getting creative with some water in the freezer!  Ahhh...technology!

New York in Bloom

Our trip to New York last weekend was full of good times, food, and family.  It was also full of beautiful blooms everywhere we looked.  I don't know what it is about flowers but I could spend hours photographing them.  The rainbow of colors and the variety of shapes are amazing and they just plain make me smile! 

So here they are, an array of New York flowers to make you smile!

 

 

 

 



J'aime fleurs!



New York Minutes

In a New York Minute

Everything can change

In a New York Minute

You can get out of the rain

~The Eagles~

Our first day in New York started early.  We ventured to Alexa's apartment to drop off our bags.  When we arrived, our perfect hostess had a lovely little note with a map waiting for us! She had prepaid metro cards and a pot of coffee for us as well!  Our day had officially begun! 

We met Alexa for lunch and ate at Bryant Park in the sunshine, surrounded by blooms!  We then got to go to her office to finally see where she works!  She has a door!  We were impressed and proud!

Sadly, we had to leave her for a few hours while she finished her day at work so back out to the streets of New York we went only to be greeted by this...

So when in New York and the weather becomes bad, why not try out a museum?

So off to the Museum of Natural History we went.  I loved it!  Even with some of the exhibits closed, it was overwhelming with 4 floors of all sorts of cool stuff!  Check it out...

So our rainy afternoon museum trip was well worth our time and it kept us occupied until we needed to head back to meet our working girl. 

Then it was off to Veselka to eat some Ukrainian soul food with one of Alexa's former professors and her husband.  We had a great time and the weather had cleared so we could eat outside.  What a great first day we had but it was only the beginning to one of the most wonderful of weekends with family in this great big city!