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
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 […]