{"id":14107,"date":"2024-10-16T15:07:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T22:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=14107"},"modified":"2024-10-16T15:24:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T22:24:04","slug":"a-change-of-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2024\/10\/a-change-of-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"A change of scene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back from Syracuse. The trip went well. When not attending wedding festivities. we walked around Syracuse and got to know the city a little bit. Most impressive was the huge regional farmer’s market that just happened to be open on Saturday morning when we were doing most of our walking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the way home, we ate at Moosewood Restaurant. I’ve always wanted to go there because the Moosewood cookbooks have been so much a part of my life. And then we went to the Corning Museum of Glass. Very impressive. The museum paid attention to science and art in equal measure. Glass is an amazing material. I found the simpler glass artworks the most appealing. I took photos of Dale Chihuly’s amazing Fern Green Tower. When first installed, it was 11 feet tall but the artist extended it to 15-1\/2 feet in 2013. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dale Chihuly\u2019s Fern Green Tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Close-up, backlit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Closeup of texture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I found a YouTube video of the reconfiguration of the tower in fast motion: Chihuly Fern Green Tower Time Lapse<\/a> (best watched without the music, I think)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My brother and his daughter the bride, dancing the father-daughter dance at the reception<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There was a lot of fall color to be seen on this trip. We passed through western Maine, New Hampshire’s White Mountains, Vermont’s Green Mountains, and the Adirondack Park. On our way home, it was very rainy but I still enjoyed this beautiful fall tree in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fall color, Portsmouth NH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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