I hear songs
May. 2nd, 2001 08:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
threeplusfireBELGIUM: ROYAL GREENHOUSES PUBLIC OPENING
The greenhouses at the Royal Palace in Laeken, Belgium are open to
the public for only 10 days each year. This six acres of neoclassical
rotundas, domes, and galleries are currently open for visitors until
May 6. Giant ferns, banana trees, grottoes, glades, and grassy vistas
are tended by 20 full-time gardeners. Guests can also enjoy climbing
geraniums and fuchsias, a colony of birds, orange trees, and the
Azalea House.
An introduction to Belgium:
http://www.visitbelgium.com/bxhome.htm
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The reports talk about how the heat was so intense because of the concrete firewalls. Ironically, what saved everyone else was also what made the fire hot enough to melt the alarm speaker in the hallway, and the emergency strobe lights. No sprinklers.
Going to school when someone has died is weird. I remember it from high school, especially the year C.W. Dean was beaten to death in his own driveway. I had no idea, and when I got to school that morning I saw police everywhere. Crying FFA girls, and boys trying to look fierce and protective. I suppose it's not so concentrated on a campus of 50,000 people. Though sometimes I see groups on the Main mall, gathered under one of the flag poles in mourning for a student or a professor or someone on the staff.
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Two oranges and a grapefruit. Pamplemousse I remember from high school French class. I want only to get through this day, through this week. Dreamed of scripts and being abandoned, of empty halls and hiding in office rooms.
Only spent a little bit of time outside yesterday and my skin is already changing to my summer color. I don't even try. It's odd. My father's blood, my genetic heritage from German farmers and Comanche women centuries ago. I don't mind because of that. Sometimes it is nice to have a family connection you can feel.
The greenhouses at the Royal Palace in Laeken, Belgium are open to
the public for only 10 days each year. This six acres of neoclassical
rotundas, domes, and galleries are currently open for visitors until
May 6. Giant ferns, banana trees, grottoes, glades, and grassy vistas
are tended by 20 full-time gardeners. Guests can also enjoy climbing
geraniums and fuchsias, a colony of birds, orange trees, and the
Azalea House.
An introduction to Belgium:
http://www.visitbelgium.com/bxhome.htm
_____________________________________
The reports talk about how the heat was so intense because of the concrete firewalls. Ironically, what saved everyone else was also what made the fire hot enough to melt the alarm speaker in the hallway, and the emergency strobe lights. No sprinklers.
Going to school when someone has died is weird. I remember it from high school, especially the year C.W. Dean was beaten to death in his own driveway. I had no idea, and when I got to school that morning I saw police everywhere. Crying FFA girls, and boys trying to look fierce and protective. I suppose it's not so concentrated on a campus of 50,000 people. Though sometimes I see groups on the Main mall, gathered under one of the flag poles in mourning for a student or a professor or someone on the staff.
______________________
Two oranges and a grapefruit. Pamplemousse I remember from high school French class. I want only to get through this day, through this week. Dreamed of scripts and being abandoned, of empty halls and hiding in office rooms.
Only spent a little bit of time outside yesterday and my skin is already changing to my summer color. I don't even try. It's odd. My father's blood, my genetic heritage from German farmers and Comanche women centuries ago. I don't mind because of that. Sometimes it is nice to have a family connection you can feel.