Enjoyable tour of Gelman Stained Glass Museum in San Juan, Texas

 71 degrees with light rain here in Kenwood RV Park, La Feria, Texas at 4:15 pm Wednesday afternoon.

This morning we went, with a group from Kenwood RV, to the Gelman Stained Glass Museum in San Juan, TX Click HERE for websites

At one point the guide turned off the LED lights behind all the stained glass windows.  The type of stained glass in this area still showed some light color.

Photo at rightt was taken from same position as photo above, after the LED lights were turned back on.

A non-working pipe organ brought from some church being torn down.  They had an electric organ beside it which the guide played, that filled the museum with sound.

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All the windows had been in an existing church at one time.  Most were saved from churches that were demolished.  They came in from all over the world, reduced to size that were encased in wooden crates and then all reassembled.

There were several solid marble altars that had been disassembled, crated and moved to the building and reassembled.  An enormous amount of weight in this marble, as were the huge stained glass windows--all broken down into manageable  sizes to crate to move.

When we were at my brother Darrell's place in Florida back in December I picked up a seed cone from the Magnolia tree in his front yard.  I just, this week, finally planted 9 seeds in some soil and potting soil.  Will see if they sprout.  Plan to take these home with us to continue growing over the summer up in Iowa and bring any that are still alive back next fall and plant in the back yard.  Have no idea whether this will work or not.  You can see the seed cone in the top of the right pot if you click on the photo to enlarge.

Got Patty's trike out so Linda may use it some.  She has only a little bit and understands she has to give it up next Monday.  Oh, maybe I didn't mention, Linda Foote planned to come visit Denise (from Canada) for a couple weeks, but Denise took off for home and begged us to house Linda.  Picked her up at Harlingen Airport on Sunday Jan 21st.  She will be here until Tuesday, Feb 6th.  Patty comes in for her annual month stay on January 29th so will have a roommate for about a week.  Patty will be with us until February 27th to get out of Iowa's cold and snow for a while.

Had our Barbershop Chorus practice Tuesday -- last one before our first performance this Saturday evening when we perform at a church in Mission, Texas.  The next day, Sunday afternoon we perform in an RV Park in Mercedes, Texas.  Our numbers are up to about 31 members now--maybe half of them ladies

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Later, Lynn