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Members in the USA probably know this wonderful poem in glass, but I've only recently found it.

"The most prominent and recognizable feature of Thanks-Giving Square is the Chapel of Thanksgiving, a small, spiral tower that features an enclave for prayerful thanks. The entrance to the chapel is at the end of a 125-foot (38 m) bridge that runs over a cascading waterfall. Inside the chapel, the spiral is topped with stained glass "Glory Window", one of largest horizontally mounted stained-glass pieces in the world.[1] The window was designed by Gabriel Loire of Chartres, France to feature brighter colors as the spiral reached its apex, becoming brighter as it reaches the center. The window appears in a shot in director Terrence Malick's 2011 film The Tree of Life. The etched glass window "The Spirit of Thanksgiving," designed by glass engraver John Hutton, features a dove over the doorway.
Below the chapel is the Hall of Thanksgiving and Exhibit Area, which tells the story of the American Thanksgiving tradition."
Higher resolution available at

http://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil ... erior_.jpg
Info about the Thanks-Giving Square at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanks-Giving_Square

My best wishes to everybody for a peaceful day and a thanks-filled heart.
Mx

MargaritaMc wrote:

Members in the USA probably know this wonderful poem in glass, but I've only recently found it.

"The most prominent and recognizable feature of Thanks-Giving Square is the Chapel of Thanksgiving, a small, spiral tower that features an enclave for prayerful thanks. The entrance to the chapel is at the end of a 125-foot (38 m) bridge that runs over a cascading waterfall. Inside the chapel, the spiral is topped with stained glass "Glory Window", one of largest horizontally mounted stained-glass pieces in the world.[1] The window was designed by Gabriel Loire of Chartres, France to feature brighter colors as the spiral reached its apex, becoming brighter as it reaches the center. The window appears in a shot in director Terrence Malick's 2011 film The Tree of Life. The etched glass window "The Spirit of Thanksgiving," designed by glass engraver John Hutton, features a dove over the doorway.
Below the chapel is the Hall of Thanksgiving and Exhibit Area, which tells the story of the American Thanksgiving tradition."
Higher resolution available at

http://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil ... erior_.jpg
Info about the Thanks-Giving Square at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanks-Giving_Square

My best wishes to everybody for a peaceful day and a thanks-filled heart.
Mx

+ 100 and I hope everyone has a great day!

Thank you, Margarita! A large storm has passed, leaving behind brilliant blue skies, biting cold, and moderate winds; a lovely day to be going out if dressed warmly! My son and I plan to visit the National Museum of the American Indian today. But first, it's time to make pumpkin bread!

owlice wrote:
My son and I plan to visit the National Museum of the American Indian today.

My daughter Dawn works there! (She was in charge of the doll exhibit.)

owlice wrote:
But first, it's time to make pumpkin bread!

Unleavened pumpkin bread

Leavened with baking powder, now out of the oven and on the cooling rack. Smells wonderful!!

Is Dawn working today? If so, I can take her a loaf of pumpkin bread!

owlice wrote:
Leavened with baking powder, now out of the oven and on the cooling rack. Smells wonderful!!

I know. (My 100x20 binoculars convert into a Smell-O-Scope.)

owlice wrote:
Is Dawn working today? If so, I can take her a loaf of pumpkin bread!

The Indians let her off on Thanksgiving but that was very thoughtful of you.

neufer wrote: The Indians let her off on Thanksgiving but that was very thoughtful of you.

That was very thoughtful of the Indians!

Margarita, so good to see you here! And what a wonderful, wonderful stained glass structure!

Oh, and... Happy Thanksgiving. We don't celebrate anything like that in my country, so I tend to forget.

Ann

Do take a look at the highest resolution image, it is staggering in its beauty! I love spirals (think galaxies and Fibonacci sequence) and this is the loveliest HUMAN made one I've ever seen.

We don't celebrate Thanksgiving either, it's a specifically United States event - tho I think that Canadians have a similar celebration in October. We have Harvest Festival, but that doesn't have the depth of heartfelt 'Thanks Be! We have a harvest so we will survive through the coming winter'.

Mx

PS. I've not heard of pumpkin bread. Sounds very good indeed.

I spent a few years in the US around the turn of the century and -- turkey or not -- Thanksgiving is a most excellent holiday. Enjoy the feasting and whatever else you find yourselves doing.

Margarita, Canada does indeed celebrate Thanksgiving, but in October, as you've said.

Thanksgiving is a favorite holiday for many Americans; something any and everyone can celebrate, and so simple! Food, family, friends.

One of the things I'm thankful for today (and every day) is the many people who educate me; thanks very much for being one of them! I have never heard of Thanks-Giving Square, despite several trips to Dallas. The spiral is lovely!

We ate at the museum, which has an excellent cafeteria. My son had alligator as an appetizer ("tastes like chicken." said he. "lizards usually do." replied I.), bison steak, kale, and what he dubbed "beaten potatoes" which were potatoes mashed with beets. He also had some of everything I had, which was turkey with gravy and cranberries (tart tart tart!!), an amazing (cold) wild rice and watercress salad, stuffing, and a butternut squash dish that was delish. We bought three desserts (maple pecan pie, pinenut tart, and apple crumble pie), two of which came home with us, as did half of his meal and a large order of pumpkin soup.

We talked about family on the drive home, old family -- his great-grandparents and distant cousins and who came over when and from where and how long one line has been here and changed last names -- and immigration patterns in the US and Scots-Irish and their influence on English in the US and why there are so many Methodist churches in the area. When we got home, we looked at stuff that we'd cleared out of my mother's house some years ago-- his grandfather's resume and great-grandfather's military service papers and old school photos of his mother and uncles and the lovely English springer spaniel my family had when I was a small child and music programs and an old grocery book listing purchases, prices, and balances that had belonged to a long-ago cousin-by-marriage and letters about a scandalous family feud my brother and I hadn't known about until we were boxing up these papers. He declared "Rufus" a funny name, I tried to open a camera very similar to the one below and failed, and then he wandered off to sleep off his still-full, and I puzzled over how to get everything back where it had been before, because it certainly seemed to take up more space than it had when we'd started pawing through it.

He's still sleeping, and I should probably go give various cats-that-are-mine and cats-who-think-they-are-mine tuna for their Thanksgiving meal now that I'm done threatening old friends on Facebook with giving old pictures of them to their children.

owlice wrote:I tried to open a camera very similar to the one below and failed

There should be a little bump in the black covering, on the body just above the edge of the front drop-down panel, or perhaps on the side as on the pictured model. You may have to hold it up to the light to see it. Press in on that bump and the front should at least release if not exactly pop open. Those old Kodaks can get pretty stiff at the age they are now, so if you do get the front to unfold, be very careful pulling open the bellows. (I had a dozen of these from the very earliest to the last of the folding Kodaks. I sold them all a couple of years ago. Somebody else now deals with the moldy old things.)

Rob

Thank you, Rob! (More to be thankful for!)

How did you sell your old cameras? I seem to have the history of Kodak stuffed in to various boxes here.

I put them on Kijiji (kind of like Craigslist.) The guy who bought them wanted to cherry-pick them, but I insisted that they all go or none goes. He took them all. A few days later he came back for my half-dozen Polaroids, including the second one made, which was the best of the lot. I had previously sold my folding wooden 4x5 camera and the Leicas, and more recently I sold my old Zeiss Icarex 35mm cameras, as well as a Yashica and a Contax. Now I have a digital Canon G10 which can (arguably, and I don't want to argue) shoot better than any of those old things, except in low light.

Rob

Thanks very much! Bulk sale; I like it, I like it!

It's the same with donuts. Sell'em by the dozen. And then sell the 'holes' separately.

so
much
food

and then... ugh so full

I'm so pleased that I posted the Thanks Giving Window: it truly is something to be proud of!
Owlice, you wrote, '"tastes like chicken." said he. "lizards usually do." replied I.'
So THAT is why our well fed year old cat, Elvira, has taken to EATING the lizards that she oh too routinely catches!
M