Tuesday's Treasures #2

This second treasure is also related to my mother.  Mom took up painting upon her retirement and became quite prolific.  In 1992 I asked her to paint a picture for me in the primitive style.  Now I didn't remember that it was that year, but luckily she dated her painting.

This is the painting she gave me that I treasure.

It's not true primitive style because there is some perspective to it.  My husband teases that its a giant there above in the barn because he's the same size as the woman on the porch.  I don't care because its such a wonderful pastoral scene to me.

A treasure!

Mom painted up until she died in 2013.  Her eyesight gave her trouble so her detail was not as fine towards the end, but she still had her sense of colors.  In fact she was adding color to a frame of a miniature she'd painted the week she died.

Joining Tuesday's Treasures. 

Four Legged Creatures

In May 2012 we took a trip west to Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada and also British Columbia.

Here are some of the four legged creatures that posed for my camera.

Joining Through My Lens

Steeples Obscured

There's an expression -

"can't see the forest for the trees";

well in this case -

"can't see the steeple for the trees" is apt.

Did it once in Appomattox, Va and then again in Pa.

I need to be more deliberate in taking my photos in the future.

Joining Inspired Sunday.

Johnstown Flood Museum

Johnstown, Pa experienced a catastrophic flood in 1889.
You can read more about it here on Wikipedia

We visited the Museum which is housed in the library donated by Andrew Carnegie since the first one was destroyed by the flood. 

 It's interesting to note that Carnegie was a member of the club that vacationed at the lake resort, yet no member of that resort was ever held liable for the flood even though they owned and maintained the dam.


The third floor of the library was used as a gym and even had a track for walking around the perimeter near the ceiling.



From the windows of the museum you can see the bridge (replaced after the flood) where all the debris washed down and caught up.  Eventually this burst into flames killing people who may have otherwise been saved.

The second floor has a theatre where you can view a documentary about the flood and view photos from that time period.

Here are photos of the flood damage featured on the first floor of the museum.

There is a recreation of the debris that piled up at the bridge.

And then some of the articles of clothing and household wares that survived the flood.  Some of the owners of these were identified.

The diorama helps you picture the distance the flood waters traveled and how they gained such speed and depth roaring through the twists and turns of the valleys.  Johnstown sits in a flood plain there in the foreground.

 It's quite a moving exhibit.  Worth the visit if you are ever in that part of Pennsylvania.