Today I went to Tacoma, which is the other half of Seattle, though they would be offended to hear it said. I went to visit the Museum of Glass. I had never heard of an entire art museum dedicated to one medium. It was an interesting building to start off,part of it is a cone, like an upside down waffle cone. They have an amphitheater where they invite artists to give demonstrations on glass blowing or other glass creations. They have a fairly large display of early Dale Chihuly's. These were done before he lost his eye in a car accident and started just designing. The work is simpler and I found much more beautiful. The museum has other collections some of which are quirky and some are very serious and others are just beautiful for beauty's sake. It was an enchanting morning.
My afternoon consisted of driving across Oregon to the Grand Coulee Dam. It was fascinating, as soon as I crossed the Cascades Oregon became a desert. There were mesas and flat lands filled with scrub and boulders. The mesas had a lot more green on them then Arizona or Utah desert mesas did. All through the mesas runs the Columbia River. The Grand Coulee Dam is so incredibly different from the Hoover Dam. It is one mile long but not nearly as tall. It doesn't have the physical presence of the Hoover Dam. It started as a reclamation project and as way to put people back to work. It was finished in 1942 and allows irrigation and power for the area.
Today I went to Tacoma, which is the other half of Seattle, though they would be offended to hear it said. I went to visit the Museum of Glass. I had never heard of an entire art museum dedicated to one medium. It was an interesting building to start off,part of it is a cone, like an upside down waffle cone. They have an amphitheater where they invite artists to give demonstrations on glass blowing or other glass creations. They have a fairly large display of early Dale Chihuly's. These were done before he lost his eye in a car accident and started just designing. The work is simpler and I found much more beautiful. The museum has other collections some of which are quirky and some are very serious and others are just beautiful for beauty's sake. It was an enchanting morning. 
Loved you pics and think I would have loved the glass museum. You, however, can't imagine how we are missing you!
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