Scavenger Hunt Sunday – Wedding Cake Edition

Its time again for Ashley Sisk’s Scavenger Hunt Sunday where we are given a list of prompts and have a week to go find photographs that go along with the prompts.

1. Key

Key, key, how about the Black Keys from a concert here in Tulsa. Does that work? The concert was great!

2. Triangle

Well, the only triangle I know about is this company. They sold drafting and engineering supplies and they went out of business recently. Everything is on the computer this days.

3. Favorite Word

Hey my favorite word is family!!!!!

4. Celebration

My wife and I are celebrating our 25th Wedding Anniversary!!! Too big a deal for one day is what I say. I hope that we celebrate it for years to come.

5. Best

I hate to admit but I’m a cake decorating fan. Tulsa hosts the Grand National Wedding Cake Competition, hosted by the Food Network’s Kerry Vincent is held in Tulsa during the Tulsa State Fair and I am addicted to it. The creations are fantastic. So anyway I went again this year, the winners haven’t been announced but I think they are all the “The Best.”

That is it for this week’s edition. Join in!!!!

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

Foto Friday Fun – Seattle Mariners Sky

This week’s number is 2458. Above is the only 2458 I have in my archives. It is of the sky over a Seattle Mariner’s daytime baseball game in Seattle a few years ago. We loved Seattle, it is a beautiful city and the people are very knowledgeable sports fans.

Skywatch Friday – Its Time for Fall Skies

Fall is here and the skies are already changing.

Skywatch Friday

Thorncrown Chapel – Eureka Springs, Arkansas

During our recent outing to Eureka Springs Heather and I visited Thorncrown Chapel. Architect E. Fay Jones little jewel in woods.

It’s footprint is 24 by 60 feet and is 48 feet high. It is modeled after the much larger Sainte Chappelle Church in Paris. The architect E. Fay Jones said that Thorncrown was “Ozark Gothic.”

It may be the most remarkable structure I have been in. It is so full of light and is light and airy. I I don’t see how it even keeps itself supported. The structure is built entirely out of wood, glass, and stone. You can read more about it and see some spectacular photographs on Thorncrown’s Website.

The chapel gets lots of visitors but everybody is very quiet inside the building plus they quite politely and calmly ask people to sit down while they are looking around and taking photographs.

I loved how the design is kept open by the absence of an altar. Note though the cross standing outside the structure and the rock ledge looks like an altar to me. The chapel fits in perfectly with its surroundings. Jones specified that no single component could be bigger than what two men could carry through the woods to the site. The trusses and such were built on site the lumber that was carried to it.

I guess that I am turning into a fan of E. Fay Jones. Just a year ago I visited his Marjorie Powell Allen Chapel at Powell Gardens near Kansas City, Missouri. It was another structure that blew me away.

Google has built a 3D model of the building. You have to play around with a little bit. It gives a better idea of what it looks like in its setting.

Eureka Springs Getaway

Heather and I just got back from Eureka Springs. We went there this past weekend to celebrate our 25th Anniversary. We made the most of it.

We ate at some great restaurants.

We went hiking along a beautiful blue quiet lake.

We were awed and inspired at the Thorncrown Chapel.

We visited the Blue Spring at Eureka Gardens

We got some people watching done.

And we stayed a romantic getaway.

We had a great time. We always do!! Have you had a getaway lately?

Six Word Friday – The Word this Week is Fall

It is time for Six Word Friday, are ready – The theme this week is “Fall.” I’m all excited about Fall although here in Oklahoma it is still pretty much still Summer.

Witchy Witches are part of of Fall

How About the Hand of Fall

Or the Leaves Hanging on Together

Or the Closed Pool with Leaves

And Pumpkins All Racked Up Together

Six Word Fridays

Skywatch Friday – Neighborhood Sky

The family went out to eat this weekend. When we got home the sky was ablaze.

And I cheated a little bit. The free generic android phone I use has an in-camera HDR function and I amped it up a little more with my favorite camera app Snapseed. Plus a car turned down the street at just the right time to add an exclamation mark to the whole thing. And then I posted it to Instagram and Facebook. So I’m a multiple non-repentant cheater.

Have you ever cheated? Tell me about it. I promise not to tell anybody but my closest thousand friends. Confession is good for you.

Skywatch Friday

Snapseed For iOS Gets New HDR Scape Filter And Shadows Slider

Pondering on Upselling

Upselling (sometimes “up-selling“) is a sales technique whereby a seller induces the customer to purchase more expensive items, upgrades, or other add-ons in an attempt to make a more profitable sale. Upselling usually involves marketing more profitable services or products but can be simply exposing the customer to other options that were perhaps not considered. Upselling implies selling something that is more profitable or otherwise preferable for the seller instead of, or in addition to,^[1] the original sale.

A sales strategy where the seller will provide opportunities to purchase related products or services, often for the sole purpose of making a larger sale.

Read more: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/upselling.html#ixzz3DXMcfofi

“…to try to persuade a customer to buy a more expensive item or to buy a related additional product at a discount.” (from dictionary.com)

I got to thinking. In the three years I have owned my little Kia Soul, nobody has tried to “Upsell” me on anything. Some of my coworkers are actually embarrassed for me. Almost all of the kids at my son’s high school drive bigger and faster cars than me.

When I take it to the car wash though I get charged extra because it is a “plus sized SUV.” I love that car wash! What salesmanship!!!

I guess that I am a lot more glad than sad about that. I don’t miss it.

What about you? You want to supersize those fries?

Ruby Tuesday – Cousins at the Zoo

This past summer son and I went to Idaho Falls to see my Dad. Sister Ellen and her husband Irv and their grandson Mr. Beans drove up from Colorado Springs and so we all met up and had a good time. Above is son Logan and his cousin Mr. Beans in a red archway at the local Zoo in Idaho Falls, Tautphaus Park Zoo.

Here is a little bit better shot.

Oh well, it was kind of a shadowy face kind of sun while we were there.

Ruby Tuesday

Scavenger Hunt Sunday – Stripes Edition

I’m doing another installment of Ashley’s Sisk’s Scavenger Hunt Sunday where she provides a list of prompts and then you try to take photos that match the prompts. So without further ado, lets get to it.

Stripes

Son Logan spends a half hour a week or so participating in therapeutic horseback riding at All-Star Threrapy Group. It helps him with his core strength and also keeps him engaged as a horse needs a leader. He has been doing it for a few years now and really enjoys it. The people who work there including the many volunteers really have a heart for their clients. The guy in the stripes is Bob who owns and runs the place.

Packed

This is the family car stuffed coming back from vacation at Gulf Shores. Funny thing about trips. Outbound everything fits really nice and compact. Coming back it is a lot looser. I think it has to do with the second law of thermodynamics. You know, in a closed system, entropy increases. You know Q divided by T and all that. For you non Chemical Engineers out there it just means that when it is time to get home you just throw everything in and shut the door the best way you can and go.

Travel

I’ve been spending way too much time in airports lately including the world’s worst airport DFW in Dallas. It is a mish mash added onto mess. However one of the terminals had a bunch of rocking chairs with handy electric outlets. So I passed the time rocking and clicking my fellow travellers.

Too Cute

Anything cuter than a lamb? And they …. Forget it. I don’t want to get everybody riled up so I won’t say it. It involved mint jelly also but I don’t want to offend anybody’s sensibilities too much.

Favorite

This is from a few years back at Gulf Shores, Alabama. Our favorite place to vacation. Son Logan is almost a fish, a very good swimmer (but not as good as he thinks he is so we watch him like a hawk!) We really enjoy hanging out in the ocean.

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