Day 3

  

Day 3…

Yesterday was flowers and somber….

We went to the beautiful Crystal springs rhododendron garden in Portland …it was in full bloom with dogwood, old plantings of rhododendrons along a lake, creeks,  among towering fir trees…everywhere you looked another color of flowers caught your eye…lots of people, lots of picturesque scenery….

Although there were lots of flowers, you didn’t feel crowed…just impressed…in awe of the beauty and variety….

Thai lunch…

Then to Omsi, Oregon Museum of science and industry…

I have to admit, I didn’t take one picture, and I didn’t realize it until we were through it…but the section we traveled through, I would have been hard pressed to capture it in pictures…

We went through the life of the Titanic and the thousands p

Of lives it touched….from the dream to its death…and lives and deaths of the people who road it…artifacts scavenged on the ocean floor…

(When I was on my first trip after my husband’s passing we visited a cemetery in eastern Canada which many people from that ship were buried…it was sobering reading many of the epitaphs on the burial stones..)

At this display, each ticket holder was given a card with a name and information about a person on the trip…at the end of of the display, you could look up your person to find out if your person lived or died…my person was a young mother who was going home with her children to Canada from Scotland with her husband….as the ship was going down she as frantically searching for her nanny and children who had taken them to safety on the rescue boats…the mother and father  died while the children lived…story after story of real lives who were in the ship….

Both places we visited started with a dream…a goal to serve people in one way or another…one grew and grew into a thing of beauty….the other sank to the ocean floor…both involving thousands of people from all walks of  life….both have lessons of life…both included building ….

What are we building, life or destruction?

Thank YOU….

Crystal Springs Rhododendron Garden

https://www.portland.gov/parks/crystal-springs-rhododendron-garden

https://omsi.edu.     (Oregon museum of science and industry)

        Titanic…