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Merrick House Veterans Day Concert

Posted on by under Architectural, Existence, Patriotic, Sacred architecture

On Sunday November 10, 2024, a sunny afternoon, the Merrick House, in Coral Gables, held a Veterans Day Concert featuring Miami’s Top Brass Band. The setting was a spectacular Merrick House backdrop with a breathless lush green environment anyone would love to be outdoors. People arrived and sat on lawn chairs and rolled out their blankets. Water and popcorn were offered. Although Veterans Day is not until Monday November 11th this celebration was a wonderful way to spend Sunday afternoon honoring our retired veterans who served our country. In appreciation for members of the armed forces we thank you for your patriotic love for our country.

Walkway to Merrick House
Good old Popcorn
1.3 Acre Grounds
Miami’s Top Brass
A Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places
Childhood residence of George Merrick, the founder of the city of Coral Gables, Florida.

Rear Porte Cochere structure

Althea Fink Merrick statue in garden.

Althea was George Merrick’s mother. She influenced her son to create and develop the City of Coral Gables. She was a natural leader. She founded the first school in the area, helped found the Coral Gables Garden Club, Coral Gables Woman’s Club, and the Coral Gables Congregational Church. She was a pioneer woman and community leader.

Merrick House ‘America the Beautiful’ Video and Song.

Credits: Miami’s Top Brass photo taken from internet.

The Gate to the West

Posted on by under Architectural, Earthly Harmony, Sacred architecture

 Golden Gate 

Spice! Scarlet Red! You are cold yet hot! 

Rivets and bolts intertwine your spine. 

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You are our daily destiny to near and far away places. 

Your arms span between two bodies of land and embrace red, orange and yellow shadows of golden sunsets. 

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Your salty scented breezes briskly pass through our hair and skin. 

Your grandeur and beauty continues to amaze us.  Other worlds come to visit you. 

You stand so proud! 

You are the backbone of this colorful city. 

You are its gateway and its strength!

 

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Bilateral Symmetry

Posted on by under Architectural, The weekly photo challenge

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Eiffel Tower from a different angle.

Bilateral symmetry is the balanced arrangement of equivalent elements on a common axis.

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/symmetry/

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Covered Walkway – Nashville, Tennessee

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Rome                                                 Venice                                                      Pisa

Christ the King

Posted on by under Architectural

As 2014 comes to a close and we welcome a new year in the near horizon, I want to share with you a place that is dear and near to my heart.

As a child I was fortunate to travel quite a bit with my parents and my brother and so it seems the traveling became my passion as did the many places we visited and began to mark my love for architecture.  However, there is one place, my childhood school and the majestic cathedral we spent going to mass to every Sunday afternoon.  It was the folk mass I loved the most.  The choir and the organ pipes resonated and moved my soul, that it is no wonder this became part of my life journey.  Walking up the nave to the altar is such a sacred walk for me that when I recently visited my childhood home town, it brought back such great memories, not to mention that I visited with my dear childhood friend, which made it all the more memorable.

I can’t think of a more fitting way to close the year during such an important time as Christmas.  Celebrating the birth of Christ.  My personal sacred journey!  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!

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