Virtual Road Trip Part 2

" My Baby, My Butterfly"

 Geneveive C. Coulson

"To my child,

May you never be afraid to fly.

May you always keep the innocence that you hold at this young age.

When you are out on a branch and you feel it shake, have faith that it will steady itself again.

Enjoy your individual beauty and uniqueness; never wish that it would change.

When you fly go in a direction that will take you places to happiness, don't be distracted by those which will not.

You start out so small and fragile, unable to take flight, with time may you be able to fly on your own.

I look at you now knowing how blessed I am, to have the baby, the butterfly, I have.

May you spread your wings and fly without doubt.

I hope that you will give yourself the chance to let your mind wonder, and show you the way.

When you spread your wings and fly, know that I will always be there flying next to you, guiding you in the right direction, giving you the strength to wait out the storm, being the one to steady the branch.

Above all else know that I love you, my baby and my butterfly, and that you always have my open wings to fly back to.

TODAY'S SEEDS OF WISDOM

• JUST BLOOMED TODAY 
• THE ADVENTURES OF TEXTFROMDOG
• TWEET TREATS
• DID YOU KNOW...?
• GARDEN UPDATE
• VIRTUAL ROAD TRIP~JARDIN DU LUXEMBOURG PART 2
• FAUNA
• GARDEN GIGGLE
• WHAT IN THE WORLD? OVER THE FENCE
• FEEDBACK

JUST BLOOMED TODAY 

Hummingbird vine

Purple Drumstick (Bulb)

THE ADVENTURES OF TEXTFROMDOG

Bringing you the online adventures of textfromdog by October Jones. You can find him on Facebook. He has discovered that his dog, "Dog", a bulldog, can text him. Each day we will share his texts with you. October's remarks are in green on the right side of the screen, Dog's are on the left.

TWEET TREATS

bringing you the quirky, funniest and most interesting tweets from Twitter that we came across.  

For years I have been marveling at a talking tree in the park until today when I realized it was just an old man trapped in a tree :(      @trumpetcake

DID YOU KNOW...?

Dahlias are the 14th wedding anniversary flower. They are considered a symbol of an eternal bond.

GARDEN UPDATE
Second day I have snuck by without watering, since that last rainstorm did it for me. Still humid today but a little bit better than yesterday...how do you people live in the South???


Got some darling chives and coriander herbs at the dollar store today. Hopefully they will hang in there as they don't water those poor dears very often.  
VIRTUAL ROAD TRIP~JARDIN DU LUXEMBOURG, PARIS, FRANCE, PART 2
Yesterday we started our virtual road trip to France and the Jardin du Luxembourg. Today we continue in their beautiful grounds, with the stunning Fontaine de l'Obervatoire.

The Fontaine de l'Observatoire is a monumental fountain located south of the Jardin du Luxembourg with sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. It was dedicated in 1874. It is also known as the Fontaine des Quatre-Parties-du-Monde, for the four parts of the world embodied by its female figures, or simply the Fontaine Carpeaux.

The fountain was first proposed in 1866 as part of the creation of the new grand avenue du Luxembourg, one of the major projects of the plan for the reconstruction of Paris. The avenue de luxembourg project called for the creation of two new squares, with ornamental lamps and columns, statues, and a fountain. The fountain was located on the tree-lined axis between the Observatoire de Paris and the Palais du Luxembourg.

The sculptor chosen, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827–1875), had been a pupil of François Rude, the sculptor who had made the most famous group of sculptures on the Arc de Triomphe. The first studies Carpeaux made were of four standing female figures representing the four points of the compass holding a celestial sphere over their heads, but Carpeaux was dissatisfied with the immobility of the figures. In his next models he transformed the women into representatives of the four parts of the world, Europe, Asia, Africa and America, twisting their bodies to turn the sphere, giving the sculpture motion. The sculptor Eugène Legrain (1837–1915), a student of Carpeaux, was commissioned to make the sphere, and the sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet, the nephew and pupil of the sculptor François Rude, made the horses in the basin around the statue. Louis Villeminot created the garlands of seashells and aquatic plants which decorated the basin, and Legrain designed the zodiac band around the sphere.

The work on the project was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, and the uprising of the Paris Commune. It was resumed in 1872, when plaster models were shown at the Paris Salon, the first since the fall of the Commune, and finished in 1874. Carpeaux was in poor health, and watched from a distance as the statues were installed in the fountain. He died the following year.

Tomorrow more on the interesting statues in the garden...

GARDEN GIGGLE

 In honor of National Cow Appreciation Day, we present these cow jokes:

What do you call a sleeping boy cow?

a bull dozer!

What do you call with no front legs?

Lean Beef!

What do cows get when they are sick?

Hay fever

Famous philosophy for cows:

Nietzsche: To moo is to be

Satre: To be is to moo

Sinatra: Moo be moo be moo

FAUNA

WHAT IN THE WORLD? OVER THE GARDEN FENCEOn today in American history, people in gardens everywhere were talking about:
1606 Artist Rembrandt is born in the Netherlands
1870 Georgia becomes the last state of the former Confederacy to be readmitted to the Union
1903 Ford Motor Co takes its first order
1964 Senator Barry Goldwater is nominated by the Republican Party to run for President
1965 Mariner 4, an unmanned space probe, sends back first pictures of Mars
1971 Nixon announces trip to Communist China
1992 Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton claims the Democratic Party's nomination for President
1997 World-renowned fashion designer Versace is killed on his front steps
2012 Comic-Con goes on at San Diego, California

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