Sculpture Saturday

Sculpture Saturday


August 2013 - Holland Michigan

Meijer Gardens has a sculpture called Joy of Music: This collection of five statues includes three musicians and two singing children in the beautiful Alpenrose Park. Artist: George Lundeen. There is music playing in the background.

Orange You Glad It's Friday!

August 2013 - Holland Michigan

Oh, the PLACES I've been!

August 2013 - Holland Michigan

Travel Photo Thursday

August 2013 - Holland, Michigan

Pledge of Allegiance: A delightful collection of children honoring the flag. Artist: Glenda Goodacre. 

Holland Michigan

August 2013 - Holland Michigan

Street banners reflecting the town's Dutch history.

Holland was settled in 1847 by Dutch Calvinist separatists, under the leadership of Dr. Albertus van Raalte, who were escaping from persecution in the Netherlands.
Van Raalte took the land due to its proximity to the Black River where it streamed to Black Lake (now Lake Macatawa) which, in turn, led to Lake Michigan. At the time, the land was inhabited by the Ottawa people who had been on the lake for hundreds of years. The native people moved north, under pressure from new Illness brought from the settlers.

Each May Holland hosts an annual Tulip Time Festival. Tulip planting and the festival began in 1930 when 250,000 tulips were planted for the event. Currently six million tulips are used throughout the city. Tulips are planted along many city streets, in city parks and outside municipal buildings as well as at tourist attractions like Dutch Village, the city-owned Windmill Island Gardens, and at a large tulip farm named Veldheer Tulip Gardens. It is normally held the second week of May, right when the numerous tulips planted around the town are blooming. Cruise ships such as the Yorktown from the Great Lakes Cruising Company make Holland a port of call.

Scavenger Hunt Sunday

Body Part (pick any of them, but let’s keep it family friendly)
Wednesday (take a photo on Wednesday – easy enough)
Music
Guess What It Is (photograph anything and make us guess what it is)
Mirror Image

I had many photo opportunities in the last week. Last Saturday I attended a pow wow, Tuesday I went photo shooting in Toronto and then on Wednesday we drove to Grand Rapids Michigan for a couple of days.






BODY PART - holding hands in Holland Michigan

WEDNESDAY - July 31 we drove to Grand Rapids Michigan. Along the way, before we crossed the border, we stopped for lunch in Komoka Ontario, an old railway town for the 1800s.

MUSIC - this was easy. We were in the town of Holland Michigan and spotted this sculpture called Joy of Music: This collection of five statues includes three musicians and two singing children in the beautiful Alpenrose Park. Artist: George Lundeen. There is music playing in the background.

GUESS WHAT IT IS

MIRROR IMAGE - we had our bathrooms redone and this week I took some photos.