It’s President’s Day. If you have the day off, enjoy it.
And since you have a few hours to kill, this is a cool thing to watch if you’ve never really examined the faces of all the American presidents. It’s only a couple minutes long.
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It’s President’s Day. If you have the day off, enjoy it.
And since you have a few hours to kill, this is a cool thing to watch if you’ve never really examined the faces of all the American presidents. It’s only a couple minutes long.
Welcome to another Friday Gallery Showing on my blog. This is a photo of Arne Quinze, an installation artist. Here, he is working on a piece called Cityscape, installed in Brussels on September 14, 2007, and I don’t know if it’s still there. I imagine it is. This must have taken forever to construct and probably cost beaucoup bucks, so I’m sure the city of Brussels plans to get their money’s worth out of it.
I am amazed by this because it looks so random, but you know it can’t be. It had to be meticulously designed or else it might collapse. This bird’s eye view allows you to see how huge it is.
And I am suddenly wondering how they kept the birds from soiling it.
I know. I’m weird.
If you’d like to see more of his work, go to the Arne Quinze website, or here where I got these photos.
Have a great weekend!
Only two more days until I Love You Day. I still haven’t bought a Valentine card for The King. I think I’d better get one today before all the good ones are gone.
In the meantime, here are three little known facts about Valentine’s Day that I thought were interesting.
1. In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week. To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy for other people to know how you are feeling.
2. Only the U.S., Canada, Mexico, France, Australia and the U.K. celebrate Valentine’s Day.
3. In the 17th century, a hopeful maiden ate a hard-boiled egg and pinned five bay leaves to her pillow before going to sleep on Valentine’s eve. It was believed this would make her dream of her future husband.
I was at See’s Candy this morning to buy a little something for The King. OMG. You couldn’t have fit any more people into that tiny shop. There were, no lie, 15 people in line ahead of me, and that was for prepackaged candy. There was a whole other line for custom boxes.
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