Virtual Road Trip~Jardin du Luxembourg

 "A Poem For You"
Adlai Bugg


A face that is warm and gentle
It smiles before saying hello
It draws you in but asks nothing
There is no requirement


A smile that speaks without utterance
Yet there is so much noise
A noise of silent happy a noise of
Come hither joy


Tall but not intimidating
A gentle giant of sorts
Towering like a shadow
Like the leaves on trees
When they sway in the wind
Capturing your attention


And there you are
Standing tall
Being warm,
Being gentle,
Exuding the joy inside
Sharing the gladness that is in you
Beaming from the smile that
Has branded your face


The years of your life
Have tagged you with
A yoke of
Majestic
Grand
Regal
Impressive
Presence

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. PARIS, FRANCE
• FAUNA
• GARDEN GIGGLE
• WHAT IN THE WORLD? OVER THE FENCE
• FEEDBACK

JUST BLOOMED TODAY 

Snapdragons

Rose

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.  

Boys have cooties      @april_mclean

DID YOU KNOW...?
In the late 1700s, France was ruled by a king. On July 14, 1789, there was an uprising against the constitutional monarchy, and the people stormed Bastille. Bastille was actually a prison, and it was a symbol of the monarchy.The goal was to create reconciliation for all of France, promote unity, and purse liberty from the monarchy. This uprising ultimately led to the birth of democracy in France, called Bastille Day or Fete de la Federation, and was first held on July 14, 1790, the first anniversary of the storming of the prison at Bastille.

GARDEN UPDATE
 Yeah! God watered for me last night!(Although it was extremely creepy to get a flash flood text that woke me up at 2:30am from the Weather Service...like you can really get back to sleep after that.) 
VIRTUAL ROAD TRIP~JARDIN DU LUXEMBOURG, PARIS, FRANCE
Ooh, la, la! Today we travel through cyberspace to Paris, France to visit one of their most beautiful and famous gardens, Jardin du Luxembourg, or the Gardens of Luxembourg.

In 1611, Marie de Medicis, the widow of Henry IV and the regent (caretaker) for King Louis XIII decided to build a palace in imitation of the Pitti Palace in her native Florence. She purchased the hotel du Luxembourg and began construction of the new palace. In 1612 she planted 2,000 elm trees, and directed a series of gardeners to build a park in the style she had known as a child in Florence.They built the Medici Fountain to the east of the palace.In 1630 she bought additional land and enlarged the garden to a little over 74 acres.

Medici Fountain

Close up of Medici Fountain

Later monarchs largely neglected the garden. In 1780, the Comte de Provence, the future Louis XVIII, sold the eastern part of the garden for real estate development. Following the French Revolution, however, the leaders of the French Directory expanded the garden to 98 acres by confiscating the land of the neighboring religious order of the Carthusian monks. The architect Jean Chalgrin, the architect of the Arc de Triomphe, took on the task of restoring the garden. He remade the Medici Fountain and laid out a long perspective from the palace to the observatory. He preserved the famous pepiniere, or nursery garden of the Carthusian order, and the old vineyards, and kept the garden in a formal French style.

During and after the July Monarchy of 1848, the park became the home of a large population of statues. The garden in the late nineteenth century contained a marionette theater, a music kiosk. greenhouses, an apiary or bee-house; an orangerie also used for displaying sculpture and modern art (used until the 1930s); a rose garden, the fruit orchard, and about seventy works of sculpture.

The garden now contains just over a hundred statues, monuments, and fountains, scattered throughout the grounds. Surrounding the central green space are about twenty figures of historical French queens and female saints commissioned by Louis-Philippe in 1848, standing on pedestals.

Tomorrow we continue with Paris and more beautiful scenes!

GARDEN GIGGLE

 If a man is alone in a garden and speaks, and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?

FAUNA

WHAT IN THE WORLD? OVER THE GARDEN FENCEOn today in American history, people in gardens everywhere were talking about:
1789 The Bastille is stormed in France. Revolutionists forced King Louis XVI to accept a constitutional government and in 1793, he and his wife, Marie-Antoinette were executed.
1881 New Mexico Sheriff Pat Garrett shoots and kills outlaw Billy the Kid
1882 John Ringo, the gun-toting, Shakespeare-quoting gunfighter, is found dead
1913 Future President Gerald R. Ford is born
1918 Quentin Roosevelt, a pilot in the US Air Service and the fourth son of President Theodore Roosevelt, is shot down and killed by a German Fokker plane over the Marne River in France 
1933 The German government outlaws all political parties except Hitler's Nazi party
1966 Mass murderer Richard Speck kills eight student nurses
1968 Atlanta Braves slugger Hank Aaron hits the 500th home run of his career in a 4-2 win over the San Francisco Giants 
1995 A revolutionary new technology is called "MP3"
2012 Another American Idol judge, Jennifer Lopez announces she will be leaving the show.

FEEDBACK

 

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