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Groomed landscaping, water gardens, woodland flowers, orchids, bonsai, and gardenias decorate EPCOT’s Future World and World Showcase.

  For the last few years I have scheduled snowbird time to coincide with the International Flower and Garden Festival at Epcot, WDW.     This year the 19th Annual Festival runs March 7-May 20, 2012.  Epcot Springs to Life is a veritable landscape tapistry of 30 million blooms.   I love its botanicals, gardens, and topiaries.   [...]

Behind Epcot’s Spaceship Earth, with its hundred eyes on its tail, is it the symbol of eternal life, benevolence, patience, kindness, compassion, knowledge, or vanity?  What do you think?

Good news!  I am on the mend.  My surgery, hospital stay and rehab time went well.   Now it is up to time, PT and me to do the rest. Knowing how much my family and friends care really means a lot. Thanks for the prayers, best wishes, cards, calls, visits, flowers and gifts. Last [...]

This 3,800 pound  pagoda stands among D. C.’s cherry trees.  The gift of one man to another, Camaller believed it belonged to the people. Its design and four carved Buddhas at the base represent consoling religious and philosophic.

Stricken by polio at 39 and permanently paralyzed from waist down, physical handicap did not stop FDR. Disability did not conquer him. Instead he met life with courage, determination, and perseverance. Roosevelt’s creed, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” helped him lead America from Great Depression through WWII’s dark times. He [...]

Atop Capitol Hill, 289 feet high is the United States Congress where the Senate and the House of Representatives sit. Under its rotunda, legislature’s symbolic and physical heart, eleven presidents have lain in state.