Our St. Pete Adventure: The Chihuly Collection

It is amazing what a talented person can do with a piece of glass. I work with glass on a regular basis but most of my work consists of draining beer out of glass containers.

Chihuly takes a different approach and if you would like to take a look at his efforts, I can highly recommend the Chihuly Collection in the Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg.  

Click on the Chihuly link and you will see samples of the collection, museum hours and on-line ticket information.

Picture taking is prohibited in the museum, but I can assure you that mere photos would not do his work justice.







You can read about Chihuly and see him work his magic with Chihuly in the Hotshop from Amazon.




Before and after our visit to the museum we wandered along Beach Drive, home to a myriad of restaurants and Straub Park.

The park brought back an interesting memory from 1969. Eight of us Army grunts from MacDill wondered over to the park one sunny afternoon to enjoy love, peace, happiness, and an anti-war demonstration. This was a beautiful "flower child" kind of afternoon until the local police fired tear gas into the crowd to break up the demonstration. That tactic worked pretty well on everyone but us Army guys. We were all recent graduates of the U.S. Army gas mask training course where you removed the mask in the gas chamber. We rather enjoyed the fumes in the open air. Ah, high times!

While in the park after our museum tour we stumbled upon one of Mother Nature's works of art:

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