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Dora Ficher and What the Bees Told Her: Vibrant Encaustic Art

@Dora Ficher Art 2010"Sun Heat" Encaustic 8x8

  It is serendipity to discover an artist online who turns out to live in my part of the world! The art of  Dora Ficher compels me with the color and texture and vibrant energy, almost buzzing with the bees that bring forth the medium of encaustic, beeswax.     Recently, I checked a book out [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Silver Tanks and Moon by Arthur Dove

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Wordless Wednesday: Bountiful Harvest of Ironwork by Samuel Yellin

Samuel Yellin Ironwork.  Photo by Wayne Stratz.

More Wordless Here. The Wrought Iron Imagination of Samuel Yellin.

Wordless Wednesday: Drinking Fountain at Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, PA

Seashell fountain at Rittenhouse Square

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Magic Inside: Phillip Lloyd Powell’s Door, and a Tool Set for a Girl

Powell - Door and Surround

Imagine coming upon this door!  What world of the imagination did it come from and were does it lead?  Stratoz and I were at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA this weekend, and amid the Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings we saw Phillip Lloyd Powell’s Door and Surround.  I sat down on a bench [...]

A Sense of Place: Photographs by Paul Grecian and Oils by Materese Roche, Artists’ Gallery Lambertville, NJ

Peak Color by Paul Grecian

  A Sense of Place featuring: Paul Grecian and Materese Roche Artists’ Gallery, Lambertville, NJ This show runs from August 5, 2011 until September 4, 2011 Stratoz and I had the pleasure of attending the opening of A Sense of Place, featuring the work of our friend, photographer Paul Grecian, and landscape paintings by Materese [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Violin in the Sky from Helmuth Keller & Sons Violinmakers, Philadelphia

Violin in the Sky. Photo by Margaret Almon

  More Wordless Here. Over at Stratoz:  Wordless Wednesday an Roycroft Wisdom Helmuth Keller & Sons

My Life as a Soda Jerk and Some Art Tile and Duke Ellington for Good Measure

Franklin Fountain

A little known fact about my biography is that I was a soda jerk for the 1986/87 school year at community college, at Kostas Drugstore in Bethlehem, PA, across the street from Liberty High School.  I recently came across the book Sundae Best: A History of Soda Fountains by Anne Cooper Funderburg, which brought back [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Dream Garden Mosaic by Tiffany, Philadelphia, PA

More Wordless Here. More photos of Dream Garden. Related Post:  Tiffany's Dream Garden

Wordless Wednesday: Rainbow of Syrups at Franklin Fountain, Philadelphia, PA

Rainbow of Syrups at Franklin Fountain, Philadelphia

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