Oops!

Oops!  Yesterday, Thursday, I forgot that today would be Friday.

I totally spaced writing a blog post.

We arrived in Las Vegas about 4:30 pm on Wednesday

after a cancelled flight, flight delays, and finally a ground stop

just as we were about to pull away from our gate in Denver.

We made it to Las Vegas finally, but our bags ended up in Phoenix.

Looking Toward the Stratosphere from El Cortez

Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

September 28, 2022

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One Spectacular Cumulonimbus Cloud!

Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

September 28, 2022

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Not to worry!

Our friend Jon picked us up at the airport, we checked into El Cortez,

had dinner, and met friends at the Vue Bar at the D.

We had lots of fun catching up with our friends from the East and West coasts.

Catching Up at the Vue Bar

Terry with Catherine, Harv, and Little Jacques

Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

September 28, 2022

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I faded pretty quickly, went back to our room, and crashed.

Terry gained a second wind and went on for the evening with more of our friends.

Southwest flew our bags to Vegas and delivered them to our hotel at 2:30 am.

I was really happy to be reunited with my suitcase in the morning, let me tell you!

Southwest Delivers

Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

September 30, 2022

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I had planned to share some more photos of our Yellowstone trip,

but I also want to visit your blogs.

So I'll save Yellowstone for another time, and post some photos

for Rain's Thursday Art Date and Nicole's Friday Face Off.

The theme for my friend Rain's Thursday Art Date is Hair.

Here are several hair photos:

While in Nova Scotia this summer, my cousin David brought over a box of photos

to donate to the Smith's Cove Historical Society,

which my sisters Donnie and Barb are co-presidents of.

The box contained a lot of family photos which I took the opportunity to photograph.

This photo is of my Great Great Aunt Arietta Cossaboom MacFarland,

sister to my Great Grandfather Kelsey Cossaboom.

She was beautiful and had the most glorious hair.

Arietta Cossaboom MacFarland

Smith's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada

Date Unknown:  Circa 1890?

I find volcanoes endlessly fascinating,

and Pele's hair is a fragile and beautiful phenomenon 

of Kīlauea Volcano and the Kaʻū Desert on the island of Hawaii.

Pele's hair is formed by gas during a volcanic eruption.

When a gas bubble bursts near the surface of a lava flow,

it can stretch the skin of the molten lava into long, thin threads.

The treads of volcanic glass can be two feet long and only one micron thick (0.001mm).

The wind can carry Pele's hair and deposit it in thick mats in low-lying areas.

The strands are fragile, brittle, and sharp.

They are also hazardous, because the tiny slivers of glass can lodge 

in your skin or eyes.  National Park Service

Pele's Hair

National Park Service Photo

My last hair photo is a beautiful sculpture

by globally known, Cape Town, South African artist Daniel Popper.

This lovely piece graces the Beach Club at Resorts World in Las Vegas.

Daniel Popper's Sculpture

Resorts World, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

November 10, 2021

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My photos for Nicole's Friday Face Off this week:

While flying to Vegas I had a window seat,

but the plane's engine blocked much of the view.

I did catch a bit of my favorite Waterpocket Fold

in Capitol Reef National Park in Southern Utah.

This amazing monoclinal fold extends for nearly 100 miles (160 km). 

Waterpocket Fold

Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, USA

September 28, 2022

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But, for the most part, I had to entertain myself rather than shoot photos out the window.

I learned how to edit photos on my iPhone and found some cool faces

among the old family photos that my cousin David donated to the museum in Smith's Cove:

The first is a photograph of my mother's father John MacDonald (front, right).

When his father died, his parish priest told his mother to send him to Boston

to live with relatives because she had too many children to look after.

While the Boston couple in the photo treated him well,

he never got over being separated from his mother.

John MacDonald (lower right)

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Date Unknown

When I was little, a bottle of pop was a rare treat.

My parents didn't have money to spare for treats like this very often.

Obviously, my brother Roy relished this bottle of Coca Cola!

A Rare Treat for My Brother Roy

Smith's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada

Summer, 1952

I had amazing, loving great aunts and uncles when I was growing up.

Of course, they were older by the time I arrived on the scene,

so I was delighted to find this old photo of my Great Aunt Nan

when she was a high school student dressed up as a fairy godmother.

Annie Cossaboom

Fairy Godmother

Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

1918

These final faces really captured my interest when Terry and I

were having dinner at the Old Faithful Inn Dining Room.

This glass etching is one of several etchings that separate

the Old Faithful Dining Room and the Bear Pit Lounge. 

I did some research trying to discover who created this image,

and I hope I have the correct information.

This was one of several carved wood panels with animals

in a number of nightclub scenes in the original 1936 Bear Pit Lounge (source).

Robert Reamer, the architect for Old Faithful Inn, 

requested Yellowstone Park Hotel Company cartoonists to come up with the images

which were sandblasted into large fir-veneer panels.

In 1988 the faded wooden panels were etched onto glass by Jack Herndon in Denver (source).

Regardless of how this etching came about, I find it enigmatic and oddly beautiful. 

Glass Etching, Old Faithful Inn Dining Room

Yellowstone National Park

September 15, 2022

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I'm sure all our hearts go out to the people of Florida

who have suffered devastating loses. 

I'm looking forward to visiting around!

Have a great weekend! 

Till next time ~
Fundy Blue

  My next post will be on 

Wednesday, October 5, 2022.  🤞

On the Bay of Fundy
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