Alex in the Dowling Studio Lobby at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.

Looking out of the Dowling Studio Lobby at the Guthrie Theater.

This was taken in the Dowling Studio Lobby at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. The amber glass lobby overlooks the Mississippi River and the Minneapolis Skyline. The room is just incredible - I wanted to stay there all day.

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?" - Ernest Hemingway

"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go." - Langston Hughes

"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes." - St. Clement of Alexandra

"There are always flowers for those who want to see them." - Henri Matisse

"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind." - Kahlil Gibran

"Earth laughs in flowers." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." -Dr. Seuss

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." - Emily Dickinson

"Tea should be taken in solitude." - C.S. Lewis

"Food is not about impressing people. It's about making them feel comfortable." - Ina Garten

"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating." -Luciano Pavarotti

"Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?" -- Chuck Palahniuk

"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power." - Lao Tzu

Photograph:  a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.  - Ambrose Bierce

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." - Anne Bradstreet

"The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination."
-Ward Elliot Hour

These are still pretty things to see in the winter - you just have to look a bit harder.

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"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you." - A. A. Milne

"Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it." - Julia Child

"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail." -Edwin Land

another take on the cute white buttons.

I have a thing for buttons - I love them.

I love to see the comeback of dairy in glass containers. The glass bottles are too cute.

This is an old Ball jar. It belonged to Alex's Grandma. I love the blue color. They just don't make 'em like they used to.

I loved my Grandma more than anyone in the world. I pull out her recipes every once in awhile. It brings me comfort.

This was my very first explored photo on flickr. How cool is that - to take a photo of something from one of the people you loved most in the world and then it gets explored.

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