The Gatherer

 

An extraordinary ceramic sculptural tea pot...

The inspiration for this floral basket...another piece of art!

Flowers at Art in Bloom 2025, Center for the Arts, Black Mountain NC

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From the current display at the Asheville Art Museum...

Friends who added smiles to a decorated elevator. The other elevator was too chaotically decorated for a photo!

Sorry about my ghostly yellow blouse and the whole gallery intruding as reflections. It was a lovely photo but the details kind of got lost.

Today's quote:

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. -Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)

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Now a new feature for a while (who knows how long!) My very  old photos - just one from whenever, and if I know who and when and where, I'll add such info too. If not, they can remain just old photos.

My grandfather, George Elmore Rogers Sr., with his first son Elmore, and his mother Bette Bass Rogers, 1906.  Poppy built their house in Galveston, 1209 Broadway. Elmore lived only until he was 12 and drowned, when his little brother, my father, was just 2 years old.  And looking at the dates, my father's sister was born Oct. 9, 1916, when Elmore died Oct. 23, 1916. 

But I love this photo because of the dapper outfit my grandfather was wearing, as well as it being the only photo of my great great grandmother.