Royal Ascot - 2014 : Queen partners with Qatar's Qipco Holdings

On the first day of 2014's Royal Ascot, be prepared to see the al-Thani's Qipco Holdings as the Queen's first commercial partner...

I wonder how this marketing match made in heaven will work out.

I will see you at the races.

Masterclass: GLASS

Cosmovitral Botanical Garden

Stained glass windows bathe this botanical garden in cosmic light

When the sun shines through the windows, the building is awash in deep reds and warm blues, making the artful garden feel both organic and cosmic.

Housed in a former marketplace in Toluca, Mexico, the Cosmovitral Botanical Garden is filled with stained glass pieces that some say make the beauty of the flora within wither in comparison.

 The centerpiece of the collection is a huge central glass wall known as The Sun Man.

After the market closed down in the 1970s, the Cosmovitral was repurposed as a botanical garden and outfitted with a number of colossal works of stained glass art in 1980.

The Above photos are from the wonderful blog: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cosmovitral-botanical-garden

DALE CHIHULY

I came across some more of the ever-so talented Glass Artist Dale Chihuly.

From blog: Ron Kadarishko

Ron Kadarishko Blog Featuring Dale Chihuly

These images are from the blog from Ron Kadarishko featuring the glass art on display at ATLANTIS

FULGERITE - When lightning strikes sand

Mother nature and her glass creations

“We may shine, we may shatter, We may be picking up the pieces here on after, We are fragile, we are human, And we are shaped by the light we let through us, We break fast, cause we are glass. We are glass.”

In case I need these one day. Kurt Vonnegut's 8 essentials on writing a good story.

Our entire memory, our concept of the world is but a big story board.

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one or two things—reveal character or advance the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading character, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they’re made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

Zoom zoom ~ David Mezheritsky ~ GIOBIKES

Giobikes - David Mezheritsky

Thanks for the GIOBIKE David Mezheritsky.


When I saw this picture, I thought of David MEZ.

a little "JEM" for Jordan Erin McKay. Looking forward!

Look forward.For Jordan McKay Vancouver

A little "cheer-her-up" message for a friend, Jordan Mckay. 

Chin up little lady. The best is yet to come. 

For Jordan McKay (Vancouver)

Seeking mentors.

Finding some mentors. Ask and you shall receive.

Tracey McVicar

http://retainuecs.wix.com/traceymcvicarcharity


Just follow the link.

Thanks everso much in advance.

Gratitude. Excessive gratitude.

Appreciation. 

Fortune favors the brave. 

Some are just born this way... others make their own.

A little help from my friends. 

Born this way. 

Ashley Hughes 

Black and white

yin and yang.

Natural dualities are used to describe how seemingly opposite or contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world; and, how they give rise to each other as they interrelate to one another.

World wide webs we weave.

shh, it's working. 

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.