Wednesday, January 7, 2009

McAllen, Texas




Hello,
Yesterday a group of us went to McAllen, pop. 130,000. We wanted to see the International Museum of Art and Science. One room was called "Icons" and had 10 large scale stained glass windows. They were from a private collection that had once been in St. Paul's Episcopal church in Albany, New York in 1914. They were absolutely beautiful.
Another room had this huge globe that you see in the photo. The narrator explained various weather phenomena and while he did so the globe would change to reflect the topic. It was a really neat affect.
They had a room of torture instruments, but it was closed yesterday. There were also art displays of paintings, carvings and sculptures. All in all it was worth seeing.
We had lunch at a smorg restaurant and there was a large variety of foods and it was all good.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

All told sounded like another great day in Texas
Heres to many more.

Carolina said...

That stained glass looks gorgeous!