Monday, November 6, 2017

CITIES TOO

With her photos, Colette takes us to cities we visited during our trip.

The landscapes were marvellous, but cities were also interesting; here some photos of Rapid City & Deadwood in
South Dakota:

Rapid City:  Presidents on every corner!

FDR

Teddy Roosevelt


Rapid City downtown


Wild Bill Hickok


A store in Deadwood



Saint John's Episcopal Church (historic place number 121)
St John's church is located in Jackson Hole. 
(It's a very pretty little church in wood.)

Rapid City (Art DĂ©co)


Devils' Tower



We also saw many interesting museums, especially the one with old carriages. 
( I love the old "bibliobus"!)  And had a very typical dinner in Cheyenne 
(a restaurant not only for tourists).
And the last day we visited  Salt Lake City,  a beautiful & rich city but where some poor people sleep outside !
Ranchers at Bunkhouse Bar


Bookmobile at Cheyenne Museum of the West


Salt Lake City Capitol Building


Salt Lake City, inside the Capitol Building
Thank you Colette.
My best,
Jane

Thursday, October 26, 2017

JUST ONE MORE TIME, FLOWERS

I have never received so many flowers!!!  I'll do this just one more time, thanking Christine for her contribution, then we'll move on to another part of our trip.  And just in case you didn't listen to Barbra Streisand in yesterday's flower post, here's the song again for you:
You Don't Bring Me Flowers  (but my students certainly did!) -->
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55RX1yhh5Oc










My best,
Jane

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

SPECIAL DAY...SO MANY FLOWERS!

Lucky me! So many flowers!  Beautiful flowers.  Thank you to my dear students for sending them to me to share with everyone.
I can't help but think of two songs I know:  One sung by Doris Day, "Send Me No Flowers".  Can you understand why she doesn't want flowers?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W17i3pbu7eM


And a sad song by Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond: "You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore" but I'll share that song with you at the end of this post.   
For now,  MORE Wyoming flowers, from Marc C.  Lovely.  
Thank you Marc.



















A sad song, but Barbra Streisand has such a beautiful voice.
You Don't Bring Me Flowers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55RX1yhh5Oc  SO BEAUTIFUL!  Please listen.

My best,
Jane
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--I can't help but... Je ne peux pas m'empĂȘcher de...

LIKE MAGIC: MORE FLOWERS

I wrote in the preceding post "I hope other students will send me more flowers", then, like magic, at that very moment, Robert's flowers popped into my email box!
Extraordinary...the photos and the students' participation!
Thank you Robert for theses photos, taken at Granite Pass.

Granite Pass (el. 9,033 feet (2,753 m)) is a mountain pass (un col)  in the Bighorn Mountains in Wyoming traversed by U.S. Route 14, on the border between Big Horn  and Sheridan counties.***
We were so unlucky...but so lucky--to be there.
STUDENTS, CAN YOU REMEMBER THIS DAY?

























So beautiful.
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***Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming, just over the Montana state line:


The U.S. Route 14, near the end of this red line, is where we were crossing the northern part of Wyoming.  It starts in Chicago and ends at Yellowstone National Park:



Maybe more flowers tomorrow??
Thank you again Philippe and Robert.
My best,
Jane

FLOWERS TOO!

The last two weeks in June were a perfect time to go to Wyoming.  We were so lucky to have such nice weather and the scenery was a mixture of snowcapped Rocky Mountains,  amazing shapes and colours in The Badlands and at the same time Spring green and colourful flowers.  
I'm so happy when my students share their photos with everyone.
Here are Philippe's pictures of flowers: 























 The few that I have:



 The Great Plains 


So lovely.
I hope that other students will send me more.  And perhaps my botany students can tell us the names of these flowers.
Thank you Philippe.
My best,
Jane