Monday, April 12, 2010

Entrance Pictures from "Buckhead in Bloom" April 11, 2010

Rachel and I did "Buckhead in Bloom 2010" hosted by and benefiting the Atlanta Preservation Center. I took almost 70 amateur pictures. I'm going to post a few at a time.


Here are entrances from the 6 homes on the tour. You can make all these bigger if you click them, and you should see them bigger.

The Philip Shutze house with stars and pineapple.
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The playhouse with goose, fern, lamp, and sconce.
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The Clement Ford house, well, one of the garden passageways with gravel, sticks stones and porcelain.
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Azelea house featuring your dorky host for scale.
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Unknown architect's house with fancy fan and sidelights.
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Neel Reid house.
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Thanks so much to Atlanta Architect and Atlanta Preservation Center trustee Rodolfo Castro for inviting me and other bloggers. From left to right: me, my daughter Rachel, Rodolfo, and his wife, Kim.
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Thanks so much to the Atlanta Preservation Center for putting this on. Here are the ticket folks in their shady office.
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Other Atlanta bloggers were there too. I saw Helen Young from Whitehaven blog. She'd seen Holly from Things that Inspire, and Blayne Beacham from This Photographer's Life (In Search of a Style), and James from Limestone & Boxwoods.

And thanks so much to my old work friend (he's not old, I'm am) Steven Bennett for saying hello.

More later and thanks,
Terry

Friday, April 9, 2010

"Spem in alium" and Ely Cathedral: Oldies Architecture and Music

The first performance of "Spem in alium" may have been for Queen Elizabeth I's 40th birthday in 1573. This amateur video set to music puts impossible sounds into impossible spaces.


More about Spem in alium composed circa 1670. More about Ely Cathedral started in 1083.

Spem in alium numquam habui praeter in te
Deus Israel
qui irasceris
et propitius eris
et omnia peccata hominum in tribulatione dimittis
Domine Deus
Creator coeli et terrae
respice humilitatem nostram

I have never put my hope in any other but in you,
O God of Israel
who can show both anger
and graciousness,
and who absolves all the sins of suffering man
Lord God,
Creator of Heaven and Earth
be mindful of our lowliness

Thanks,
Terry

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