Wingspread for Tuesday's Treasures

 Frank Lloyd Wright - Wingspread - 1939

a National Historic Landmark

Wind Point - Wisconsin.

Wingspread, also known as the Herbert F. Johnson House, is a historic house at 33 East Four Mile Road in Wind Point, Wisconsin.

It was built in 1938–39 to a design by Frank Lloyd Wright for Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr., then the president of S.C. Johnson, and was considered by Wright to be one of his most elaborate and expensive house designs to date.

It consists of a central hub, from which four long arms radiate. Each of the wings originally housed a different function: parents' wing, children's wing, service wing, and guest wing, with the public spaces in the center. The hub appears as a domed structure, with clerestory windows on the sides, and a viewing platform at the top.

The house, at 14,000 sq feet, is one of the largest of Wright-designed homes. It also considered to be the last of Wright's Prairie School inspired designs, and was one of his most expensive residential designs.

The Johnson family donated the property to The Johnson Foundation in 1959 as an international educational conference facility. It is also open to the public for tours.

The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1989.

Sharing with Tom's Tuesday Treasures and Wordless Wednesday on Tuesday!

Today's quote:

Part of being an intuitive person is becoming in tune with, and trusting, your power center.

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

Browning Montana, 1910

Chief Dan George

President Kennedy welcomed the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) at the White House in March 1963 to discuss tribal sovereignty, economic and educational opportunities, and prejudice toward Indigenous groups.

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Personal note: I'm back in my Black Mountain apartment, which is just as cluttered and comfortable as ever. Electricity means cooking and refrigerating. Only water for flushing (and apparently sewers work!) So I brought some drinking water, and things to cook. One must go about 30 miles east to get many things, though Ingles, the local grocery is open. Another store, Hopey's has different kinds of things at reduced prices. I heard the laundromat has opened, as well as a pizza place for carry-out. There's a curfew at 7. We must take garbage bags to town dumpsters, as the garbage trucks all were damaged in the flooding from the storm. So why did I come back at this point? I'm aware that I am adding to a population that relies on outside help at some level still. But I hadn't planned ahead enough when I left, and two of my medications were out as of today. I could get one filled by Tuesday but the other was through a mail order pharmacy, and I didn't want to go to the bother of having my prescription sent to a new address...and the delay of shipping would be probably a week. I had refills of both sitting here in my home already. If push comes to shove, I might have to leave again, especially if the water situation worsens. But that's another day.

PS. I had difficulty going to sleep last night. I kept seeing highways that would fall off into oblivion, or end in  a wall of blackness. I'd try to concentrate on something else, but these visuals would intrude, it seemed like hours. I had no difficulties on the road coming home yesterday mid afternoon. Eventually I got my 8 hours of good sleep. Perhaps some PTSD from the storm conditions remains.

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Today's quote:

“We are citizens of the world’s greatest republic, a nation of ideals, not blood and soil,” McCain wrote. “Americans never quit…. We never hide from history. We make history.” John McCain

Refuge-nest with cousin

 My refuge-nest for a week (plus!)...as an evacuee from Black Mountain NC

And here are a few photos from my cousin John's in Columbia SC.

Here I'm nebulizing with that foggy thing in the lower left. Love John's back porch!

The living room with a few of John's books, and 3 pottery pieces made by myself! He keeps it nice and clean and tidy. I was impressed, and determined to have as nice a setting for myself when I get home...lots to throw out first!

John's nice house. It has lots of room inside, and I enjoyed the guest room.

Another house in the neighborhood was decorated for Halloween.

Wax mallow plant, one I'd never seen before.

The wax mallow, probably planted by his next door neighbor who has lots of pretty plants.

Lunch on the back porch!

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Updated Sun. at 9:00 am. I'm packing up from my friend's refuge and heading home to Black Mountain in an hour or so.

Today's quote:

John Muir reportedly began each day by asking the question:
”How can I be at one with nature?” He spent countless days studying everything from wild mountain goats to the smallest of wild flowers.

The critters this week

I enjoyed watching squirrels from the back porch of my cousin John's home.

 

From Vantique

Robert Reich asks for a caption from his readers! He posts these cartoons every Sunday on his newsletter.

Maggie Vandewalle, American artist, watercolourist "Joyriding"

My dear little Panther enjoying her friends in the aquarium many years ago.

Hope all the critters effected by the hurricanes are surviving and finding foods. Imagine being a black bear in North Carolina, or a deer in Florida. Poor things.

I did see several people's real pets, dogs being walked again. And now am at a friend's house in Pittsboro NC (near Chapel Hill) with 2 adorable black cats. Just haven't had camera out when they ventured into the room. I'll be trying to capture them for next week!

Sharing with Saturday's Critters

Today's quote:

Balance must be created when taking in news media, not allowing ourselves to BECOME the bad news.

Photos from the past

 Here are part of my collection of old photos (mostly from the internet)

Texas cowboy chuck wagon camp from the early 1900s offers a vivid snapshot of the rugged, hardworking life of cowboys during a period when the cattle industry was booming in the American West.

And Mon. Oct. 14 is Indigenous Peoples Day in the US (formerly celebrated as Columbus Day.)

1924 President Coleridge visited by indigenous people after Citizenship granted, but states determined voting rights

New York after snow storm 1888

Not very old, but a replica of a vardo wagon, with all the trimmings!

Green River Utah, circa 1890

Niagara Falls during the freeze of 1911.

Sharing with Sepia Saturday this week.

A beautiful mansion in Galveston

 This home was for sale a month ago. Built in 1885 it is listed as a Historic Site. 2402 Avenue L, Galveston, TX 

“James Moreau Brown (1821-1895), builder of Ashton Villa, erected this home in 1885 as a wedding gift for his daughter Matilda (1865-1926) and her husband Thomas Sweeney (d. 1905). Attributed to architect Nicholas J. Clayton, the Victorian cottage features angular dormer windows and a mariner’s wheel motif in the front porch balustrade. Judge Mart Royston, noted lawyer and civic leader, and his two sisters occupied the residence from 1911 until 1954.”

“Recorded Texas Historic Landmark – 1978”

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The Halloween pet parade is coming to Black Mountain soon! (Hopefully!)

Today's quote:

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

PEMA CHÖDRÖN

Signs I've seen (on the internet)