Tuesday, December 14, 2010

RVing isn't always what it's CRACKED up to be!

What do you do when it's really cold for Florida? The high today is going to be 53 in Naples. Go check out a museum! This morning I went to the Naples Museum of Art. I wanted to see the Stephen Knapp: Lightpaintings show and some Dale Chihuly glass...it was COOL! The admission was $8.00 to get in. There are three floor galleries...you are not allowed to take photos, so unfortunately, you'll have to go and see everything in person on check it out online: The Naples Museum of Art--the Chihuly pieces of glass they have as permanent exhibits are fantastic! Dale Chihuly is an American born artist. There is a ceiling on the third floor made of Chihuly's glass, over 600 pieces of glass. It's called Persian Ceiling. Wow! Then, the Stephen Knapp Lightpaintings were awesome! These were pieces of metallic coated glass mounted with stainless steel brackets to a background, then a light shines on the entire piece, refracting the light into prisms which splits the colors of the spectrum into all kinds of angular, colorful reflections extending past the mounting board onto the walls...The actual pieces of work use as little as five pieces of glass to upwards of 30 pieces or more. The glass pieces themselves are small, you could hold them in your hand easily, but the final result with the light shining on all the glass pieces is a wall emblazoned with many, many different angular pieces of color. This brochure photo is just to give you an idea of the end result. It's much prettier than this!


Tomorrow the weather is still going to be somewhat cool...maybe low 60's...we're on a warming trend heading into the week...low seventies by Friday and high seventies by Saturday.....Right now, it's 5:00--- here! Time for a beach drink! (Inside the motor home, too cold to sit outside!) .....bye for now....

6 comments:

  1. So that's how they repair a crack in the windshield! I picked up a chip in mine on my trip to Arizona that I will need to get fixed. I wish I could get your guy to do it.

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  2. The company is national and you can make your appointment online. They got back to us within a couple of hours of making the appointment. It's called Safelite...don't let that chip go too long..they spread as time goes by and then it gets more expensive! But I'm sure you already knew that! :-)

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  3. Jeannie - it is fun to hear of your daily trials. I am going to see if this goes through. Nancy Smith

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  4. Wow, it went through. My son lives in Fort Lauderdale - and he said it was 30ish when he was going to work this morning. Looks like a lot of the country is below average for temps.

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  5. I want to know how the crack happened when you are sitting in an RV park? Was it the segals diving at your pretty RV? Glad to hear you got it fixed. You guys don't know what cold is. It is suppose to get 3 below tonight. So you have nothing to complain about. Love and miss you.

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  6. The Naples Museum of Modern Art, in particular DALE CHIHULY GLASS looks absolutely stunning.
    I reckon I could spend days in that place it looks so impressive. Thanks for sharing and I hope the temps pick up for Eldy's sake. Loads of love and hugs, Bobbie from Australia

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