This is the garden in front of the library. We can see it in the image of the library I showed you yesterday.
I wondered if this was indigo, but when I looked at pics, it seems that indigo has alternate leaves, rather than this whorl thing going on.
It looks like I'm in the middle of the street, but no. I'm on the circular island we looked across yesterday.
Art Museum.
Looking back toward City Hall.
Inside the Franklin Institute.
The Franklin Institute is a hands-on science museum. There is a lot to see and do. Environment, global climate change, pollution. Human body, especially the circulatory system. Machines of various kinds and how they work.
It was full of hordes of shrieking children.
I understand the impulse to take children to Enriching Places.
But.
If all they are going to do is run and scream, take them to a playground.
Srsly.
They'll be happier, and so will everyone else!
When two or three adults are "in charge" of 25 kids, no civilization will be enjoyed by anyone in the facility.
Alas.
I thought it was an interesting museum, and was amazed that essentially everything was in working order, given that children would run up, bang on anything that looked like it was supposed to do something, and run off, leaving space for someone else to come and bang......
I took essentially no pics.
I believe this is what happens after particles collide. Love it..... (This image was decorative, rather than being part of an exhibit, and I confess that I, personally, find it exceedingly decorative!)
As it is the *Franklin* Institute, there are a few pieces of Franklin memorabilia here and there.
Completely not getting this "long S" thing. The printing ranger, a couple of days ago, said that what we think of as 's' was only used at the ends of words. I looked it up, just now, in Wikipedia, and there is no mention of WHY anyone thought it was a good idea to have two different marks for the sssssame ssssssound..............
The article makes it sound like it's only "possible" to confuse the 'long s' with 'f', but I can't tell the difference in this book!
Look at "veffels" and "fre-" directly below it. "Veffels" is clearly two 'long s'es, but the "fre-" has to be 'f' (not thinking of any English words that start 'sr"?)...............
I'm glad people finally came to their senses and settled on one 's'. English is complex enough without two 's'es.
Before I left the Franklin Institute, I visited the ladies' room. It was after 4:00; I was the only one in there. I was struck by the quiet............... Just me and the (rather loud) exhaust fan.
It was like nirvana.........................
Please, people. Take the hordes of children to the park. Outside. Where they will not spoil everyone else's experience of the museum (or whatever other learning opportunity)!!! A very few children, with an attentive and vigilant adult, probably ok inside. Large groups? No. OUTside, please. The children are gaining nothing, and they are messing up everyone else's day.
Kthx.
I decided to walk back to the hotel.
It was still hot out.
The reflections of the older buildings in the newer ones caught my eye. (See the dome, in the pinkish building's windows, over the trees?)
For once, I got a mise-en-scene! I don't think this image is nearly as interesting as the one above, but it tells another part of the story..........
Decorative plants.
Getting closer and closer to City Hall.
Another place to get wet and cool.
This sculpture is famous, and the park is named Love Park, I think. The sculpture isn't very big. Six feet tall, maybe? That's the same fountain as above, behind it.
(The sculpture is sitting on top of what looks like a plain metal table. Not an enhancement to the sculpture, in my humble, which is why I have cut it off, above.)
turning 180, City Hall.
You can walk under/through. Walking in from the north side, as I did, it was remarkably cooler than out under the sun. All of that stone takes a while to change temperature.
Lots of decoration here. The floor............
Emerging on the east side.
Seriously love this decoration. (Which, I believe, is ceramic.) Love the colors, love the shapes.....
Pleased that this shot turned out. It was dark enough outside that I was hopeful but by no means certain......
Beginning and ending the (photographic) day with the Pennsylvania Department of Records.
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