Yesterday I was invited to take a day trip to Winter Park with my friend Wanda. We left early in the morning as Winter Park is quite a jaunt from here and we gathered up our friends Sue, Betty Lou and Sharron at their places along the way.
Our destination was the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art on Park Ave. there. Charles Morse was born in VT. It was his granddaughter, Jeannette Genius McKean, who founded the museum in 1942 and named it after her industrious grandfather, Charles.
The Morse houses the world's most comprehensive collection of works by Louis Comfort Tiffany 1848-1933. Jewelry, painting, art glass, leaded glass windows and lamps and the interior of his chapel that was at the 1893 World's Exposition in Chicago. Also, art from Tiffany's estate on Long Island is on display. He wanted everyone to be surrounded with beauty and to enjoy fine art.
We thoroughly enjoyed looking at all the beautiful stained glass windows and the chapel was absolutely awesome!
Park Avenue and this area has brick streets and many wonderful boutiques and shops as well as many sidewalk cafes. With all the Christmas decorations and music it was truly lovely. Strolling along on a warm, 75 degree afternoon made me wonder if this was what Paris would be like. Especially as we chose to have lunch...a late lunch, at the Paris Cafe. There were fountains and pools with bright colored fish, Koi, I believe, some were over a foot long, swimming around. We were seated beneath a good sized tree and enjoyed a really good lunch.
It was a most delightful little adventure and I arrived home pleasantly weary.
Here are some pictures from the Morse Museum's web site. No cameras were allowed inside.
That sounds like quite an experience. BEAUTIFUL glass! that would have been a fun trip.
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