Daily Archives: July 5, 2012

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  • Lantern Festival Photo, Chinese Pillars, posted 2012-07-05

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    Missouri Botanical Garden – Listening to the Air National Guard Band of the Central States during my visit to the Garden last night for the Whitaker Music Festival was highly enjoyable.  They played a wide variety of music ranging from classical to jazz (in the tradition of Glenn Miller) to pop (including a Frank Sinatra set) to rock (by the Sidewinders) to patriotic (by entire concert band).  Although the Lantern Festival at the Garden continues, on the evenings of the Music Festival […]

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  • Lantern Festival Photo, Double Seventh Festival, posted 2012-07-05

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    Missouri Botanical Garden – A daytime photo of the Double Seventh Festival display at the 2012 Lantern Festival.  Legend says that a cowherd married a beautiful weavergirl without telling the girl’s mother, a goddess.  When the goddess found out, she ordered her daughter to return to heaven.  The cowherd followed her so the goddess created a wide river (the Milky Way) to separate them forever.  Once a year all the magpies in the world fly up into heaven and form […]

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