Our trip south to Virginia included a few big east coast cities. The first was Boston. We stopped long enough to take a walk around Harvard and visit the Harvard Natural History Museum.My favorite exhibit there was the collection of glass flowers.
Yes, these are pictures of flowers that are made of glass. "The models were created by father and son Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, nineteenth century glass artisans who perfected their family craft. Their lineage of jewelers and glassmakers trace as far back as the fifteenth century." (from the Harvard Natural History Museum website.)They worked on the flowers from from 1887 to 1936. 
Truely incredible delicate creations all of glass. 
I also enjoyed some of the needlework like these molas.
We also took a quick walk around the MIT campus which wins for "coolest building on a college campus".
I wonder what you have to do to get this lab space.
We also saw this sculpture on our MIT walk.
From there we headed to Rhode Island. Because, well, none of us had ever been there before! (I think this means that Alaska is the only state I have not visited!) Next we drove through New York City, just because we could and stopped in Philadelphia.I hope you are not too bored with the details of our trip. We have been home a couple of days and are still dealing with the catch up at home. We have lots of garden stuff to do and the boys are packing and cleaning their rooms in preparation to move off to school later this week.It is wonderful to extend my vacation by sharing a bit of it with you.Stay tuned for a FACTORY TOUR tomorrow!
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