miriam's wilmington de photos.

sculpture

2011-10-13T12:13:00.000-07:00

In front of the AAA building on the riverfront in Wilmington DE.

School patrol statue, AAA building, Wilmington DE

2011-07-24T18:58:00.000-07:00

From the front of the AAA headquarters

2011-07-18T18:51:00.000-07:00

woman in Lowe's

2011-05-31T19:29:00.000-07:00

Creepy little house

2011-05-31T19:27:00.000-07:00

Funny little corner house

2011-05-31T19:26:00.000-07:00

Hospital red alert!

2011-04-11T19:21:00.000-07:00

So Mr Charm broke his femur, and was taken to the hospital, where they set his bone. They made three neat little incisions--arthroscopic, don't you know. We have a view of the river this time, which beats last time, when we had a view of a cemetery.

However, Mr C has a roommate who is deaf, and confused. The nurse who was attending him raised her voice in an effort to make him understand. And what a voice! A fine Wagnerian soprano which caused the bedpans to rattle. Really--it was an assault on the ears and the nerves.

This hospital did not have a guy riding a huge floor polisher, but of course we were there on the weekend, and maybe their floor polishing man works Monday to Friday.

However, they did make a serious medication error--one that I've corrected several times, but which persists on the hospital database. Tomorrow I will talk to the doctor. I will not shriek! I will not shriek! No! Will not...

Could I be fated to enter the Guinness Book of World Records as the person who had two relatives murdered by hospitals in one month?

I asked my uncle many years ago what the date was when doctors started curing more patients than they killed. He looked pained and said he wasn't sure we had passed that date yet.

I will calm down. Have a cup of tea. Serious sedation is called for. Where are those beta blockers?

Monument among the blossoms, Brandywine Park

2011-04-10T19:44:00.000-07:00

Flowers, Longwood Conservatory, 20 March 2011

2011-03-22T12:13:00.000-07:00

garden lights, 2010, Longwood

2011-01-14T21:06:00.000-08:00

Close-ups of hydrangeas at Longwood Gardens

2010-11-28T20:37:00.000-08:00

2010-11-27T17:13:00.000-08:00

From the Longwood gardens conservatory. Photos taken by my 9-year-old grandson on an iPhone.

At the new Delaware Children's Museum

2010-11-23T13:32:00.000-08:00

Longwood Gardens, September 16, 2010

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taken with my iPhone.

Arrangements, Longwood Gardens

2010-09-07T11:37:00.000-07:00

Brandywine Zoo, Wilmington DE

2010-07-10T18:33:00.000-07:00

These delightful paintings cover the walls of the administration building of the Zoo. Enchanting.

Yellow, July 3, 2010

2010-07-04T14:45:00.000-07:00

Red flowers, Longwood Gardens, July 3, 2010

2010-07-04T14:42:00.000-07:00

Still more Longwood

2010-04-12T19:29:00.000-07:00

More tulips from Longwood

2010-04-12T19:27:00.000-07:00

Longwood Gardens April 11, 2010

2010-04-12T19:24:00.000-07:00

Buckeye tree, Longwood Gardens

2010-04-11T17:40:00.000-07:00

neighborhood snowman

2010-02-11T14:20:00.000-08:00

Wilmington snow, February 11, 2010

2010-02-11T14:18:00.000-08:00

Christmas trees, Longwood Gardens, December 2009

2009-12-09T09:25:00.000-08:00

Orange leaves, blue lights

2009-11-24T15:54:00.000-08:00

Longwood, November 2009

2009-11-24T15:49:00.000-08:00

November, Longwood Gardens

2009-11-24T15:38:00.000-08:00

On the lawn at Longwood

2009-09-18T19:15:00.000-07:00

sculpture of fruit, vegatables, and flowere, Longwood Sept 2009

2009-09-18T13:41:00.000-07:00

Tomato tree, Longwood

2009-09-18T13:39:00.000-07:00

A chandelier made of ears of corn, Longwood Gardens

2009-09-07T20:56:00.000-07:00

Two hats--75 years apart

2009-06-13T13:21:00.000-07:00

Grand Opera House, Wilmington

2009-06-02T19:34:00.000-07:00

A fountain in the middle of the city

2009-05-19T18:07:00.000-07:00

Gibraltar, Pennsylvanie Ave, Wilmington

2009-05-16T18:16:00.000-07:00

A garden in the middle of a city.

Delaware sculptures

2009-05-16T17:28:00.000-07:00

For those who are interested, here is a list of sculptures in Delaware.

The photos of the sculptures are not very good, but the descriptions are very detailed. Many of these works are in poor condition and need restoration.

A lot of the listings are situated in graveyards; which do not interest me. But I don't see a listing for the African-American soldiers memorial. Unless I overlooked it. It is is Brandywine Park.

Construction dust

2009-05-08T11:05:00.000-07:00

When I went to Arizona back in early April, I was naive enough to believe the construction on my new bathroom might--just might-- be complete or nearly complete when I got home. This is equivalent to believing that the stars are God's daisy chain or that the Easter bunny lays colored eggs.

Brian the Boy Contractor seemed so eager to complete the job! He had nothing else to do--nothing! It would be his A-1 priority!

Well, Brian and his silent helper have managed to spend about eight hours a week on this job. The bathroom is the usual jumble of tools, wallpaper fragments, pieces of lath, sawdust and crumbly stuff. The entrance hall is completely covered with contractor footprints against a backdrop of mud. Bits of board adorn the front walk. The garage, which is usually full of junk, now contains a toilet, sink, and medicine cabinet in addition to the usual dreck. The dining room holds a large carton containing the stuff that was in the old bathroom. A fine layer of dust lay over every available surface.

And so it goes.

Any hope of actually keeping this mess presentable would be futile. I did sweep up the fragments that were in the kitchen so I could have an occasional meal there. I also mopped the kitchen floor and the entrance hall. Then it rained for nine consecutive days.

At this point all I do is cringe when I walk into the house and leave urgent messages on Brian's voice mail. Is this some sort of contractor's tradition to make the biggest mess possible for the longest possible time?

Flowering fruit trees, North Wilmington, DE April 2009

2009-04-30T19:29:00.000-07:00

Sedona, Arizona

2009-04-30T19:23:00.000-07:00

New Castle County memorial honoring Vietnam vets

2009-03-17T17:11:00.000-07:00

Brandywine Park, Wilmington DE March 17, 2009

pumpkins, Highland Orchard Farm, Wilmington DE

2008-11-10T07:04:00.000-08:00

Sonnet by Shakespeare

2008-11-09T09:27:00.000-08:00

That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold
William Shakespeare

That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou see'st the twilight of such day
As after sunset fadeth in the west;
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire,
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the deathbed whereon it must expire,
Consumed with that which it was nourished by.
This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.

This is one of my favorites.

Artist at work, Delaware Art Museum, studio

2008-11-06T17:38:00.000-08:00

Turning leaves

2008-10-31T14:49:00.000-07:00

at the Delaware Art Museum.

Baltimore waterfront from a water taxi

2008-10-30T19:35:00.000-07:00

Scenes from Longwood Gardens, October 2008

2008-10-15T21:02:00.000-07:00

Grasshopper weathervane, duPont house, Hagley Museum

2008-10-12T18:36:00.000-07:00

Statue of Columbus

2008-10-12T18:23:00.000-07:00

On Delaware Avenue in Wilmington.

Sculpture, across from the bus station, Wilmington

2008-10-12T15:24:00.000-07:00

sculpture, Delaware Art Museum

2008-10-06T19:21:00.000-07:00

Pictures from Delaware Symphony event, Sept 13, 2008

2008-09-14T18:22:00.000-07:00

Views of Longwood Gardens, September 9, 2008

2008-09-10T18:52:00.000-07:00

Charleston, SC Library Society

2008-07-30T13:42:00.000-07:00

from my recent trip.

Delaware Art Museum, Botero exhibit

2008-07-30T13:31:00.000-07:00

Tulips

2008-04-12T20:10:00.000-07:00

Statue of Garfield, Wilmington DE

2008-01-14T19:20:00.000-08:00

The Kalmar Nyckel

2008-01-10T20:31:00.000-08:00

Highalnd orchard farm, Foulk Rd Wilmington

2007-12-21T07:29:00.000-08:00

tree, rockwood

2007-11-27T19:13:00.000-08:00

Orchid display, Longwood conservatory

2007-11-26T18:47:00.000-08:00

Orchids at Longwood

2007-11-26T18:45:00.000-08:00

Longwood Gardens conservatory, Christmas 2007

2007-11-26T18:42:00.000-08:00

A green thought in a green shade

2007-09-25T14:28:00.000-07:00

Longwood Gardens, 2006

The Garden

by Andrew Marvell

How vainly men themselves amaze
To win the palm, the oak, or bays ;
And their uncessant labors see
Crowned from some single herb or tree,
Whose short and narrow-vergèd shade
Does prudently their toils upbraid ;
While all the flowers and trees do close
To weave the garlands of repose.

Fair Quiet, have I found thee here,
And Innocence, thy sister dear!
Mistaken long, I sought you then
In busy companies of men :
Your sacred plants, if here below,
Only among the plants will grow ;
Society is all but rude,
To this delicious solitude.

No white nor red was ever seen
So amorous as this lovely green ;
Fond lovers, cruel as their flame,
Cut in these trees their mistress' name.
Little, alas, they know or heed,
How far these beauties hers exceed!
Fair trees! wheresoe'er your barks I wound
No name shall but your own be found.

When we have run our passion's heat,
Love hither makes his best retreat :
The gods who mortal beauty chase,
Still in a tree did end their race.
Apollo hunted Daphne so,
Only that she might laurel grow,
And Pan did after Syrinx speed,
Not as a nymph, but for a reed.

What wondrous life is this I lead!
Ripe apples drop about my head ;
The luscious clusters of the vine
Upon my mouth do crush their wine ;
The nectarine and curious peach
Into my hands themselves do reach ;
Stumbling on melons as I pass,
Insnared with flowers, I fall on grass.

Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less,
Withdraws into its happiness :
The mind, that ocean where each kind
Does straight its own resemblance find ;
Yet it creates, transcending these,
Far other worlds, and other seas ;
Annihilating all that's made
To a green thought in a green shade.

Here at the fountain's sliding foot,
Or at some fruit-tree's mossy root,
Casting the body's vest aside,
My soul into the boughs does glide :
There like a bird it sits and sings,
Then whets and combs its silver wings ;
And, till prepared for longer flight,
Waves in its plumes the various light.

Such was that happy garden-state,
While man there walked without a mate :
After a place so pure and sweet,
What other help could yet be meet!
But 'twas beyond a mortal's share
To wander solitary there :
Two paradises 'twere in one
To live in Paradise alone.

How well the skillful gard'ner drew
Of flowers and herbs this dial new ;
Where from above the milder sun
Does through a fragrant zodiac run ;
And, as it works, th' industrious bee
Computes its time as well as we.
How could such sweet and wholesome hours
Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers!

Statue of Caesar Rodney

2007-09-25T14:25:00.000-07:00

Farm, Foulk rd

2007-09-25T14:24:00.000-07:00

Water lilies, Longwood Gardens

2007-09-25T14:22:00.000-07:00

Inside the Conservatory, Longwood Gardens

2007-09-25T14:20:00.000-07:00

Memorial statue, in front of Delaware Museum

2007-09-25T14:18:00.000-07:00

Aboard the Kalmar Nyckel

2007-09-25T14:15:00.000-07:00

African-American soldiers memorial

2007-09-25T14:13:00.000-07:00

Cathedral close, Wilmington

2007-09-25T14:12:00.000-07:00

Brandywine Park, September 2007

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Labyrinth, Delaware Art Museum

2007-09-25T12:44:00.000-07:00