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.

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Sunday morning:

Foggy out and 65 when I opened the windows at 7. Took my Fosamax with water, which requires waiting an hour before enjoying coffee. That's for the osteoporosis, which was diagnosed based upon my age, more than the actual density of these bones. However, I've only ever broken one, my coccyx, when snow sledding in the Smokies, and again landing on it from standing on a table which tipped. 

Going to meet an old friend for coffee by the lake in a few hours. I'm back on the antibiotic (at half the dose), so will take the anti-vertigo pill as well, and avoid being in sun, as well as use my walking stick and wear my walking shoes which are like having duck feet, wide, light weight, stable, ugly!

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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.