Thank you for visiting. Be well. 💗 Michele
Photos: my Chihuly glass images taken at Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, AZ
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These images are very colourful! They almost depict my creative thought processes 😂
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Thank you! The Chihuly exhibit is a stunning mixture of smooth glass and spiky plants. A brilliant combination. 🌈🌵💖 haha! Smooth and spiky might also describe your creative thought processes. 🤔🤓🥸💭😂
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Very amazing photos and special your photo, before I was in Instagram , now I left !!
Great wishes dear and God Bless 🌷🙏♥️🌷
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Thank you, Thattamma, for your kind words and for appreciating my photos. 🙏🏻Have a wonderful week! 🌞
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You are most welcome 🙏 🥰happy Thursday 🌷🙏🌷
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What festive colors!
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Indeed! 🤩 🙏🏻
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I saw that exhibit in Jerusalem in the summer of ’00! It’s amazing 🤩
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How wonderful! I have seen it a few times through the years. I love it! 💖🙏🏻
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Stunning photos, Michele!! 😍😍😍. Stay blessed 🥰🌹🤗🙏
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Thank you, Diana! So nice to see and read you. It has been a while. Hope all is well with you and yours. 🙏🏻😊🤗🌻
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So much beauty to appreciate…your photography, the Sonoran Desert, interesting botanical glass artworks, and, most of all, a lovely desert rose donning black attire! 🌞🌹 Have a great day, Michele.
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There is abundant and brilliant beauty in this world. ✨ Your sparkling comments are most kind. Thank you for being an appreciator! 😊 I will and you do the same. 🌞
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You certainly make it easy ✨ and are most welcome! Thank you, too. 🌞
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Ahhh, thank you, Phil. 🦋
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I absolutely adore Chihuly, Michele. Several years ago, I set up a Pinterest Board for Chihuly – https://www.pinterest.com/kymgordonmoore/love-chihuly-glass-art/. I love the integration of his art within the Desert Botanical Garden. How awesome my friend! 🤗🎨🥂🥰
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How wonderful! Thank you for sharing your board, Kym. Quite a collection. Incredible art. 🤩 I am amazed by the entire process… from creation to installation and to see the glass in the sunlight is spectacular. Thank you! 🤗💖
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Oh girl, I am sure it is a spectacular sight indeed. Glass sculptures illuminated by light is mesmerizing and rather angelic! Chihuly’s work is beyond amazing. I am simply awestruck by his work, even in spite of working with one eye. Thanks for sharing your artistic experience with us, my Dancing Queen!!! 👑🩰👸🏼
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He is amazing. 👨🏻🎨 I am sure he has an army of people working for him. Sammi took glass blowing at the start of her college career. I was able to watch her work. Very cool! I have a few of her pieces. Bonus! Thank you, Kym. You are a doll!
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WOW, your daughter is just as creative as her awesome momma! 👏🏼🎨👏🏼 Thus, my dear, BE BRILLIANT!!! ✨🌞🌟
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Oh, you are too kind. 🤗 She is an (old soul) artistic goddess! I am a proud momma. 💗 Yes! BE BRILLIANT, we must!! ✨If not us, who? 😆 💕
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Great question my Dancing Queen! Who? Us baby…Us!!! 🙆🏽♀️💖🙆🏼♀️ That’s who!!! 😜
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Beautoful photos, Michele.
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Thank you, photographer Timothy. 🙏🏻 I just found your comment in spam. ☹️
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I posted about being ugly today, quite the opposite. 🙂
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Oh no! Beautiful you! Will take a look soon.
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Oh goodness, that’s not why I commented it. I just thought it was interesting. 🙂
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Contrasts are interesting and I am glad you mentioned it. 😄
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I am fascinated by the shapes and curvatures of the forms present in your photos! I find the symmetry and hints of motion very in sync with the movement present in dancing. ❤
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Can we please go back in time a few years, and will you join my honors classroom? 😁 What a wonderful student you would be/you are! Actually, I learn more from you – the best kind of student! You offer enriching thoughts that broaden my perspectives on what I have presented. My eyes do gravitate toward movement, even in things that are (seemingly) standing still. Life is a constant flow of motion and emotion. Wonderful! Thank you, writer Jaya. ❤️
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I would join in your classroom in a heartbeat, Michele, if I could! I love the way we are constantly learning from each other. 😍
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It is a gift that lights me up! 🙏🏻
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I saw the Chihuly in Kew Gardens England. I loved all of the glass sculptures . Thanks for taking me back again.
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Oh, how I would love that! What a treat! It is hard to fathom the work involved in shipping and setting up these displays, then add an international location. Wow, that must take an army of people. 😅 My pleasure. Thank you, Anne, for visiting and sharing your Chihuly experience.
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Such vibrant beautiful pictures! I somehow was imagining you dancing while seeing the pictures and then reached the picture of you dancing 🙂 I loved the quote about dancing with the shadows you put on the picture.
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Magnificent glass art shining brilliantly during a glorious sunny day. Thank you, Pragalbha, for enjoying the artistic scenes with me. 😍 I do love dancing my way through life, so how apropos of you to have those lovely thoughts. 🙏🏻I do often think and write about my “shadow” and when the lighting is just so in my dance space, I am entertained by my dancing partner, my shadow. 👩🏻🤝👩🏻Thank you for commenting on that. 😊
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It is my pleasure, your delightful energy of joy and creativity is a gift 🙂
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Joy and creativity – two words and experiences I hold dear. Thank you very much. Your walk with honesty, balance, and inner strength inspire me and many others. ✨
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Gratitude Love & Smiles :))
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Thumbs up to being brilliant!
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Absolutely, yes! 💡👍🏻 Thank you, Geoff.
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Nicely clicked.
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Thank you!
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Thank you! I appreciate it. I will fix your comment.
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Really beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
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It is a spectacular display just before the beauty of spring explodes across the garden. Thank you, Nico, for visiting! 🌞
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Such lovely pictures
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Thank you, Ananda. Many photographic moments and scenes at the gardens.
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Loved the bright colors! Great captures!!
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They are gorgeous! So many photo ops! Thank you very much, Jyothi. Best to you!
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Beautiful photos. I love the garden art sculptures with how they seem like they were there all along and always part of the natural art of the desert.
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I did keep my camera busy. Thank you, I appreciate your visit. 🙏🏻 I agree! They are so perfectly placed, and each sculpture complements its surroundings so nicely.
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Beautiful. 🙂
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Thank you, LDN. 😃
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I do try, Michele: sometimes I fail, but I keep trying! Love the photos 🤩❤️
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You don’t have to try. You are! 🌟 Thank you, Ingrid, it was a lovely day! 💖
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Wonderful post
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Thank you, Prakaash. I appreciate your visit. 🙏🏻 I just found your comment in spam.
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Ok and have a great weekend 🙏
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Hi, Michele ~ Happy St. Patrick’s Day 💚🇮🇪🍀😘
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Thanks for the good luck on this Saint Patrick’s Day! It was a good one. 🍀 Enjoy your weekend!
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TY Michele, you too. 🪄💫✨✨🍀
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The photos are amazing, I love the colours. Happy St Patrick’s Day Michele and have a great weekend!
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A splendid scenario for a picture-perfect day! A few clouds, blue skies, beautiful glass, and a gorgeous garden. It is probably prettier now, I imagine, with more things blooming. I was there a few weeks ago. Thank you very much! Hope your St. Patrick’s Day was enjoyable, with more joy to follow. 🌞
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Wow those were brilliant photos Michele!
Truly splendid~!💖🌻🙏🌈
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Thank you so much! 💖
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Yes of course Michele!! 💖💖💖👏👏👏👏
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We visited the Chihuly exhibit at the base of the Space Needle in Seattle. But seeing the sculptures outdoors is even more amazing. They did have some sculptures outside of the building in Seattle. The muted colours of the desert enhance the beauty of the glass shapes and colours. Thanks for sharing Michele.
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That sounds cool too! You are right, seeing the sculptures outdoors, especially in the evening with lights, is spectacular, as you can see and imagine. Great point… it is a lovely contrast, for several reasons. Thank you for visiting and sharing your feedback.
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Those were brilliant photos ❣️❣️❣️
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Thank you, Luisa. It was a beautiful and brilliant day! 💖
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You’re most welcome 💙
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Such beautiful pictures!!!!!
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Thank you! It was a wonderful day. 🌞
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Michele, these are wonderful artistic works with so much beauty! The sunlight illuminates the colored glass sculptures in a very fascinating way.🌞🌹 They give the impression of being from a completely different world or like something out of a fairy tale.
I really like it.
Michele, I wish you all the best! 😊💕Stay happy!
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I love and appreciate your description of my post. The other-worldly mention is fitting. ✨ Thank you so much brilliant artist Rosie. Wishing you a wonderful spring sparkling with creativity, love, and joy! 💖
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I did a Gallery on Chihuly, but did not know he had a gallery in Phoenix. I imagine, with his talent, there are galleries everywhere. I knew when I first spotted the image whose work it was. Made my day. Sparkles to you!
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Awesome! Every few years, the Desert Botanical Garden hosts his work. It is spectacular, as you can see and imagine. The glass captures the sunshine so beautifully! I am thrilled to have added some brightness to your day. Sparkles to you too! ✨ (love that) 🙏🏻
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Beautiful! I guess the desert is coming in bloom as spring comes on?
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The Chihuly exhibit at the Desert Botanical Gardens is a beautiful and popular one. ✨ Yes, you are correct, Dwight. The desert will be showing off its vibrancy in the coming weeks. Before everything dies in the heat! 🥵🌵🔥Thanks for your visit!
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You are welcome!
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“Dance with your shadow, don’t …”, Wow! A great quote.
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Thank you! Have a wonderful week! 🌞
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