Tropical Waterfall Landscape
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Dear Julie, Wonders of Water, the 2018 Philadelphia Flower Show, featured landscapes with flowing water. A cascading waterfall in a tropical forest greeted visitors at the entrance. Splashing mixed with a babble of languages numbering almost as many as the varieties of plants in the exhibit. People jockeyed for photo shots and craned their necks to view flower arrangements atop bamboo scaffolding. Other exhibits featured ponds―with water lilies, beside a wedding arch, in a Japanese garden, and for decoy ducks. An alert father grabbed his running toddler before the youngster splashed in. The water didn’t tempt me, but the row of chairs lining the back wall did. Like birds on a telephone wire, Spence and I perched on cushioned chairs with other senior citizens while fountains in a city park exhibit trickled. “We’ll meet you at the next set of chairs,” the woman next to us said when she left with her friend. My favorite landscape was the subtropical lagoon. With orchids and Spanish moss hanging from tree branches, the lagoon reminded me of visiting Mom and Dad in South Carolina. I expected to hear croaking frogs. Love, Janet Water Landscape with Spanish Moss 
Art – Tulle in Tubes  Dear
Sophia,
The Philadelphia Flower Show could tour art museums. Hundreds of clear tubes hung above and between the exhibits demonstrating water recycling in the Delaware and Schuylkill watersheds. Tulle, in muted rainbow shades, dangled through each tube. I gawked at the lo-o-o-n-n-n-g tubes and hoped they were plastic not glass. Down the aisle, pictures of water plants looked so realistic I squinted to convince myself they were water colors not photos. The medium for other art? Plants. Greens formed an elephant next to a carpet of flowering mums. In the Design Gallery, visitors oohed at bouquets arranged to resemble paintings of the ocean. More impressive were pressed plant pictures made by artists of all ages―kindergarten students through professionals. They made water scenes including fish, mermaids, and a girl with her dog by a stream. I baby-stepped right and left to get a photo of the pressed plant girl without the overhead light reflections. People streamed around me and many exclaimed, “The girl only got second prize? That’s not fair!” I agreed. The picture is awesome. Love, Janet Art – Pressed Plants
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