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Colleen descending a cool little section of the South Rim Trail on Gooseberry Mesa. Zion National Park is in the background.
Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park, Utah. A really good arch to walk up to, a really bad arch to walk 10 foor beyond, you would find yourself astounded by your own mortality
"Main Street, Looking east toward the superstition mountains. Mesa is the center of Arizona's irrigated Desert Wonderland. The yearly influx of Winter Visitors makes it a popular vacationland for Americans from all states."
Judging by the cars, i'd guess this photo was taken before 1954.....when the main street was still cool. I wish I could have lived this....the store-fronts and colors and signs are just magnificent!
Mesa Arch at sunrise is a busy place, with photographers jostling for position. At night, however, we had the place to ourselves. We hiked the short trail to the arch in the moonlight, then experimented with lightpainting. Not bad for a first effort. You can see the snow-capped Mante LaSal through the arch.
I took this photo at the Mesa Arts Center during open house on Sept 11 2009 in Mesa Arizona.
Check out their web
site at www.mesaartscenter.com/
Taken hand held with a Canon 5D Mark II camera and Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Lens.
Exposure: 0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture: f/4.5
Focal Length: 17 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Mesa Arch in Canyonlands National Park, Utah. A really good arch to walk up to, a really bad arch to walk 10 foor beyond, you would find yourself astounded by your own mortality
Mesa Altar
18th Century
Balayong Wood, Hand-Forged Iron and Brass
H:37” x L:54” x W:26 1/2 (94 cm x 137 cm x 67 cm)
P 400,000
Provenance: Guagua, Pampanga
Lot 43 from the September 2014 Leon Gallery auction. For details, please see www.leon-gallery.com
From the auction catalogue:
During the 1st century of Spanish rule, Philippine houses, like their Iberian counterparts, hardly had any furniture. A single bed, a lone table and a solitary straight-backed chair for the master of the house were considered adequate. Cabinets were very rare
and the few articles of clothing were usually kept in rattan tampipi, covered baskets made in Camarines.
Because every aspect of furniture-making was done by hand, furniture was not only scarce and expensive, but was considered valuable enough to be pawned in case of need, a practice that continued until the end of the 19th century. The only craftsmen capable of making them in the Philippines then were the ‘Sangleyes’ who lived in the Parian outside Intramuros.
Since the Chinese who came to trade called themselves ‘Sangley,’ meaning ‘traveling merchant,’ the name was applied to all Chinese until the end of Spanish rule. The only skilled furniture-makers in the colony, they used Chinese joinery techniques to make furniture without nails. Iron was scarce and was first imported from Mexico and then from China, until iron ore was
discovered and mines developed in Angat, Bulacan in the mid-18th century.
It was but natural for the Sangley artisan to make furniture that he was familiar with, so rustic versions of Ming and Ching Dynasty furniture were made locally. This particular piece made of Balayong wood is an altar table. It has cutwork flanges in front to seemingly support the two wide drawers. The drawers have keyhole shields of hand-wrought iron and are decorated
with iron bosses. The top also rests on cutwork flange supports on either side.
Tables of this type are very rare and are usually found only in the old provinces around Manila.
The Mesa Arizona Temple was the seventh operating temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Located in the city of Mesa, Arizona, it is the first of two LDS temples built in the state.
The LDS temple in Mesa was one of the first to be constructed by the church. Announced in 1919, only a few short years after Arizona had achieved statehood, it was one of 3 temples announced and constructed to serve outlying Mormon settlements in the early part of the century, the others being constructed in Laie, Hawaii and Cardston, Alberta, Canada. While neither of the three settlements were particularly large in their own right, they were considered thriving centers of largely Mormon populations. The long and arduous trip to existing temples located in the state of Utah would prove costly and even dangerous for the faithful of the era, and temple attendance was (and is) an important part of the faith, and as such it was seen as necessary to construct temples in their communities.
Numerous colonies had been set up in Arizona by the Mormons during the last half of the nineteenth century, and plans had been discussed for a temple in the area as early as 1908, but the start of World War I stopped these for a while. Plans to build a temple in Mesa, Arizona were finally announced on October 3, 1919 and a 20-acre site was selected and bought in 1921. The site was dedicated shortly after on November 28, 1921 and on April 25, 1922 the groundbreaking ceremony took place. President Heber J. Grant conducted the ceremony.
Following the earlier traditions set forth in the building of temples such as the Salt Lake Temple, the new structure in Mesa was a centerpiece of an organized and planned community for the faithful that lived nearby. Upon its completion in 1927 it was the third largest temple in use by the church and the largest outside of Utah, and remains among the largest temples constructed to this day.
In a departure from the style of temples constructed prior, the Mesa temple (along with the temples in Laie and Cardston) was built in a style suggestive of the Temple in Jerusalem, lacking the spires that have become a mainstay of temples built since then, and was in fact the last LDS temple constructed without a spire. On the outside walls are depictions of the gathering of God’s people in the Old and New world and on the Pacific Islands. The temple design is similar to ancient buildings found in the Southern U.S. and South America.
When construction was finished on the temple, the public was able to take tours through the temple. Two hundred thousand people were able to take a tour through the Mesa Temple. The temple was dedicated on October 23, 1927 by Heber J. Grant. By that afternoon, the temple was being put to use.
The Mesa Arizona Temple was renovated and rededicated on April 16, 1975 by Spencer W. Kimball. In 1945, the temple was distinguished by becoming the first to offer temple ordinances in Spanish, the first time in a language other than English.
The Mesa Verde bracelet is made with a matched set of Cherry Creek Jasper cabochons. Bead embroidery on Ultrasuede with Carnelian, Jasper, Jade, seed and wood beads.
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