Wonders of the World

SoCalLisa

Blue, so how does it keep the rain out??

CherrylH

I conducted a dig today -- looking for the top of my desk at work!!!!!!

Blue Mensa, I want to travel with you. Shokk and I will be your assistants and do whatever you need us to do. Right, Shokk?

Cherryl

bluedahlia

Shokk and Cherryl, I can dig it.  You two kill me.  LMBO!

SoCal, not entirely sure.  It has something to do with the angles.  I should try looking it up.  That little tidbit was mentioned to me by one of the guards there.  I'm a bad girl.....I talk to strangers.  hehehe! 

livesstrong

Ok, here are 2 more- just two of my past "wonders" - I miss them terribly.

 Cody at the Jersey shore - I love the smile on his face

"Cooper, doing what he loved - retrieving - 

"

Valerie 

bluedahlia

Val beautiful furbabies.

shokk

Oh Valerie they were just too cute................Mensa and Cherryl count me in............maybe we should all play the lottery in our respected states and whom ever wins can sponsor Pinkstock to Italy.............MB gets to pick were we go................Mensa and Lisa can be out tour guides............Shokk

bluedahlia

You got it!!!!!!!!!

SoCalLisa

I choose Lake Orta...

Bren-2007

Sign me up!!! 

We won a $30 scratch-off once ... so don't wait on Mr. Tim and I for the big lotto win!!

Val - your pups were so beautiful.  My Bobo is so old now. 

bluedahlia

Did a bit of digging on the Patheon and am even more fascinated than I was before.

The occulus is 7.8 meters in diameter. Yes, rain and snow occasionally fall through it, but the floor is slanted and drains cleverly remove the water if it manages to hit the floor. In practice, rain seldom falls inside the dome.

and.....

"In her Memoirs of Hadrian, Marguerite Yourcenar speaks of 'this open and secret temple, conceived as a sundial. The hours were to circle the center of its carefully polished pavement where the disk of the day was supposed to rest like a golden buckler; there the rain would make a limpid pool from which prayer could transpire like smoke toward the void where we place the gods.'

Put less poetically, the thirty-foot hole in the ceiling performs like a sundial to mark the passing of the hours and the dates of equinox and solstice. The hole is the building's only source of light. Or air. And it symbolizes a union between earth and sky that allows human prayer to ascend to the heavens unimpeded. ^*

 

"The Pantheon is defined by its oculus, a bright opening in the center of the dome. It renders the space an inside-out sundial: the shaft of light that shines through the oculus slowly moves across the dome over the course of the day. A well-trained eye can tell the month and the hour by the slant of light - but not, I think, the year. Time collapses inside the Pantheon. While most Roman architectural achievements are meant to communicate the civilization's mastery over nature, the Pantheon maintains a deep connection to it, to the essential elements of light and sky."

Another theory......

It was explained to me that the hole in the pantheon is an optical illusion, that is to say, while standing inside, it appears to be level (parallel) with the ground, when it fact it is built at a steep angle - thereby allowing light to come in normally, but making it more difficult for rain to fall in.

So it seems it's up for debate.

shokk

Mensa that really is pretty amazing............now see there is something else I have to do..........Shokk

bluedahlia

We'll have a ball girls.  At least 6 months......from top to tip of the boot.

shokk

Lisa that picture is just breathtaking.............Mensa I think half of my hs graduating class was going to hitchhike across Europe............I say we bc sisters pack up and start of the top of Italy and work our way down to the very tip.........6 months sounds great........we can all get mammo's just before we leave and spend 6 beautiful months eating and drinking our way through the country.............Shokk.......( I am going to buy a lottery ticket today)

wildabouthorses

Wow...amazing pics...thanks for sharing! I won't post any since I already overwhelm you guys on other forums with my photos.

shokk

Uhmmmmm Jan what do you mean you aren't going to post pictures.........that is what this thread is for..........get to posting girl..............there are probably many bc.org ladies that wouldn't know where to see your pics...........Shokk

SheriH

Jan, I also would love to see you share some of your beautiful photos here.

SoCalLisa

Jan is amazing..

wildabouthorses

You sure? SOCALISA that has got to be the best photo by you ever, that Lake Orta. The only exotic place I've been is Mexico but didn't have a camera on me when we crossed the border.  Hmmm...let me see. A pic from the plane window just before we came into San Diego? Let me go dig it up.  This town seems to be directly east of San Diego in the hills/mountains. This was taken with the point and shoot Kodak I had before the one I use now. I wish we had the time to go to the beach to get some ocean pics while there. I kick myself for not having the camera out of the overhead bin to take pics when we flew out of San Diego, the plane went out over the ocean then turned back east!

Anonymous

Sunrsie in St. Louis! 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csw2yBYYFdA

or this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UJLIrT_ALs

Anonymous

Sunset in Pennsylvania!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhA5dDrlNzI

Nicki

SoCalLisa

Jan..now you have me wondering..where is that little town???

Nicki..you should have the song, Sunrise, Sunset..going.. 

Anonymous

SoCal:  OMG!  Im cracking up this morning.  Sunrise - sunset?  Hahahahahaha

Sunrise in Arkansas!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joyTLcrNFAw&feature=related

Nicki

wildabouthorses

SOCALISA>Doesn't that town look like it would be interesting to see while on the ground the way its nestled into the mountains?

Anonymous

Wild/Jan:  It looks like what I picture when I think of the Wagon Circle.  Great picture.

Nighty night.

Nicki

SoCalLisa

Now this little town is one of my favorites...

It is Avila in Spain, an hour or so outside of Madrid..

 I used to take all the friends/family who visited us when

we lived there to have lunch at the parador (national hotel)  there, right inside the walls

At the top of the entryway into the town, storks build their nests...still do..

The walls are lighted at night and very beautiful..This is where Santa Teresa was from... 

bluedahlia

Well it's been a while since I posted in this thread.  Life kinda gets in the way sometimes, in a good way.  Anyhow I'm taking you guys back to Rome to one of the most beautiful places I ever saw.  For me it was an enchanted place.

Villa Borghese

Villa Borghese is a large public park in modern Rome. Built in 1605 to be a private park of the Borghese family it became a government property in 1901 and was open to the public.

The park houses several museums, a zoo, an artificial lake, a riding school, an amphitheater, and numerous fountains and statues including those of Byron, Victor Hugo and Goethe. Villa Borghese is like the Central Park of Rome.

Villa Borghese is now home of the Galleria and Museo Borghese (Museo e Galleria Borghese) and houses important art collection including works of Bernini's "Apollo and Daphne", Raphael, Titian and Rubens.

The artificial lake in the park has a temple dedicated to Aesculapius - the god of health. The temple is built on the island and was designed by Antonio Asprucci with beautiful Ionic columns.

shokk

Mensa!..............I was just thinking about this thread.............how beautiful is this place above..........and whom said you didn't haven't any taste...........I hope Villa Borghese is close enough to visit when I come stay with you........ha.............I think I might have to start spending my summers in Canada instead of Texas...........between the hot flashes and the hot Texas summer's something is going to have to give and Blue looks like it's you..........ha............oh and congrats on page 7..............Ivy (Shokk)

junie

Aaaahhhh, what a fun trip reading this thread has been.   It has brought back so many memories!!  Venice--my most fav place to visit.   Como--a definite jewel.  The Museo Borghese is one of the best museums/art collections.  It was only partially open after extensive restorations when we were there so didn't get to see it all.  Would like to go back to Rome some day.  Many happy memories of Europe trips.   The Citadel in Besancon, France.  (That area was the center of French resistance during WW II and the Citadel has been turned into a memorial of that time.  It was more powerful than visiting Dachau--and that was overwhelming!)

Barcelona, Munich, Geneva, Paris..and Budapest...would love to return to Budapest.  Somehow, we ended up there for a couple days years ago shortly after the "iron curtain fell".   Such a beautiful, fantastic adventure...Tulum, Playa del Carmen, Cozumel, Isla Mujeres, Maui...

Niagara Falls ties with the Grand Canyon for total awesomeness!  And, Zion National Park is a strong contender!  Got my first hint of claustrophobia riding to the top of the arch in St Louis.  NYC and WDC are great places to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there!

You've got me thinking--if I could have just one more trip somewhere, where do I most want to go?  Got to think about that--keep the pictures, travel stories coming!  (I've not yet learned to post pictures here, so I enjoy all your pictures and narratives...) 

hugggsssssss 

bluedahlia

Since we were talking about some of our travel in the other thread, I thought I'd resurrect this thread.



Waving to my friends >>>>>>>>>>>>>>!

Bren-2007

Blue .. I'm so glad you resurrected this thread.  I'm going to post some pics tomorrow.  I need to scan them in first. 

I love the pics and talk of everyone's travel.

love ya,

Bren