Friday, October 21, 2022

Letter "P" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures


 - Tom's Requests for this Week's Prompts: 
     Starts with "W"; A Favorite; and Tom's suggestion, "P"ainting
 - James wishes for our Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures
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Starts with "P":  Today is Park for the "P" Word.  Please enjoy my Herman Park Pictures that I took here in our adjacent Houston, Texas. 

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After lunch, Mrs. Jim and I drove over to the 445-acre (1.80 km²) Herman Park (link 01)(link 02).

Everyone is proud of the new Herman Park Train. We haven't ridden this one but sure did ride the other one, a lot. Kids and grandkids all liked it when they were young. Mrs. Jim and BP rode that old one just this winter.
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Reflections: The Herman Park has a really nice Japanese Garden too! We didn't get to stay long there because it closes at 5:00 PM until summer time. (link)

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. The bridge and pond above remind me of Monet's works at Giverny. Mrs. Jim and I went there in France before we got too old for things like that.  We took our son, Tim with us also.  

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That's General/President Sam Houston at the end of the reflection pool. 

[large picture] [super size] We didn't rent a Paddle boat but you would be able to do that. 

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Lagniappe (1): There is the Museum of Natural Science, the Cockrell Butterfly Center (link), a Planetarium, and a very nice IMAX Theatre if you want to stay cool in the air conditioning. 

[large picture] [super size] Walking to the Museum, we saw this orange flowering fruit tree in bloom (in the center of the picture). [large picture] [super size] 

The steps here are in front of the Museum. They lead to a huge sun dial where there are always a bunch of kids playing something similar to hopscotch among the numbers. 

Lagniappe (1):  What we didn't see were the 4500 animal Houston Zoo (at Herman Park)(you've gotta see this link to the zoo and all other attractions at Herman Park, the Miller Outdoor Theatre, and the 18-hole Herman Park Golf Course 
(click here for a free round of golf). 
All three of these are Houston Texas size, that means real big(!!). If you haven't been there, please visit the Wikipedia article, you will be impressed. Come visit us and I promise we can go there! 


 A Favorite:  My Pony, it's my retirement gift to me back in 2001.  A 1998 Mustang GT Convertible with 49K miles then (now 106K). 

Revelation 21:6 by Larry Dyke circa 1970's

Tom's Choice, "Painting":  The original Painting for this Print was given to President Richard Nixon on National Prayer Day, early 1970's.  Amazon has one signed by President Nixon for $199, ours is signed and numbered.  

Revelation 21:6, King James Version says, "And he said unto me, 'It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.'"  

Please Pardon the Reflections in the photo, I took it inside this afternoon where the lighting was sort of messing things up. 

A Lagniappe (2):  Panning for Gold?  We did in Alaska, got a little to take home.  But like "all the fish he had got was in his mother's pail," all the gold we got was purchased in the gift shop.

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The Fine print stuff:

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 - I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (Link is here to click for Tom's Weekend Reviews) 

 - I am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).

 - The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law. 

 -The one-legged Goose photo was previously posted in April 2015 with several other photos with a slightly humorous poem I wrote, it is posted at the link below  on my other active  blog, 
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