This
is the 159th day of the year. We are closing in on the mid-point of
the year and the first day of summer (June 21 at 1:04 AM in the Northern
Hemisphere). I love summer, heat doesn’t bother me and I love the longer days.
We have had very moderate, warm (not hot) weather this spring. This is probably
the most normal spring weather we have had in years. I am accustomed to things
being very hot, very quickly as we go from winter to five minutes of spring,
straight into summer. I have been geocaching with my students in the 21st
Century program and it has been awesome. You can geocache in Walt Disney World. A few years ago Disney removed all the physical caches but there are several virtual caches that one may claim on property. If you are interested contact me at bxhamm01@bellsouth.net
On
this date in 1867, Frank Lloyd Wright was born. Wright established the prairie home;
he designed the Guggenheim and built what is probably one of the most famous
homes in the world, Running Waters, in Pennsylvania. Running Waters has the
added feature that it was built on a rock that it was supposed to be built
near. The family that commissioned the home loved to picnic on the rock and
wanted a home built nearby. Surprise, surprise!
Just
before he turned 70, Frank Lloyd Wright was brought in to speak to the artists
at Disney’s studios. Jim Korkis has an excellent account of this event writing
under his pen name of Wade Sampson. You can find it here:
Visit the Contemporary Resort, a piece of
architecture that I think Wright would have appreciated.
On this date in 1917, Walt Disney graduates from
Benton Grammar School in Kansas City, Missouri. Walt never graduates from High
School as he volunteers to be a Red Cross ambulance driver during World War I
and travels to France.
Let’s go to the France Pavilion at EPCOT and
enjoy the movie they have on France and her people.
Remember, your best excuse is always: waiting
for your dreams to come true.
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