{"id":2118,"date":"2010-09-04T23:07:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T03:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2010-09-04T23:12:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T03:12:03","slug":"cirrus-downtown-dali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=2118","title":{"rendered":"Cirrus! Downtown! Dali!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a fun day!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Dali-and-Downtown-Atlanta\/IMG3985\/994643244_dLnMG-S.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><br \/>\nWent downtown to see the Dali exhibit at the High Museum in Atlanta!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Dali-and-Downtown-Atlanta\/IMG3998\/994654906_9MYGg-S.jpg\" alt=\"d\" \/><br \/>\n  Not sure if you enjoy his work but many of his paintings are on my favorites list.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Dali-and-Downtown-Atlanta\/IMG3997\/994654463_6d5AZ-S.jpg\" alt=\"h\" \/><br \/>\nOn the way downtown, I was struck by the wispy Cirrus clouds.  Fantastic formations.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Clouds\/Cirrus1\/IMG3974\/994638858_37w8L-S.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Nature\/Clouds\/Cirrus1\/IMG3967\/994636183_hsdJY-S.jpg\" alt=\"cc\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Made it downtown just fine and really enjoyed walking around the city looking at the fantastic buildings and enjoying the cooler air.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Dali-and-Downtown-Atlanta\/IMG4007\/994659123_z977g-S.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Dali-and-Downtown-Atlanta\/IMG3993\/994652465_xQ5uZ-S.jpg\" alt=\"d\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Dali-and-Downtown-Atlanta\/IMG3995\/994653619_KfywB-S.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Dali-and-Downtown-Atlanta\/IMG4002\/994656465_73CY8-S.jpg\" alt=\"s\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Dali-and-Downtown-Atlanta\/IMG4012\/994666485_CXu5W-S.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Dali-and-Downtown-Atlanta\/IMG4022\/994687917_G4AnH-S.jpg\" alt=\"bb\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Dali exhibit was incredible.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Dali-and-Downtown-Atlanta\/IMG4024\/994689845_KcqzZ-S.jpg\" alt=\"d\" \/><\/p>\n<p> My all time favorite is his &#8220;melting clocks&#8221; picture which is called the Persistence of Memory.  I saw that earlier this year in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Dali-and-Downtown-Atlanta\/IMG4027\/994692040_wgPwE-S.jpg\" alt=\"p\" \/><br \/>\nBut his St. John on the Cross was there as well as many of his sketches.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Dali-and-Downtown-Atlanta\/IMG4025\/994690635_4qMo2-S.jpg\" alt=\"d\" \/><br \/>\nI went to the exhibit with brother in law Bill Doverspike and his girlfriend Deborah.  It was fun hanging out with them too!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Dali-and-Downtown-Atlanta\/IMG4028\/994692906_XZujr-S.jpg\" alt=\"b\" \/><br \/>\nOn the way home, I stopped at Best Buy to purchase a flash drive for a computer project that Jesse is working on. 8 Gigabytes for $19!  That&#8217;s amazing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/Art\/Dali-and-Downtown-Atlanta\/IMG4033\/994700191_NSFVK-S.jpg\" alt=\"u\" \/><\/p>\n<p> I remember a time years ago when I thought, &#8220;A gigabyte!  I couldn&#8217;t use that up in my whole life!&#8221;  HA!  I have over a Terabyte of video on one expansion hard drive that I&#8217;ve shot!<\/p>\n<p>Back home now, finishing up my admin work.  Looking forward to a relaxing evening.  Awesome day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a fun day! Went downtown to see the Dali exhibit at the High Museum in Atlanta! Not sure if you enjoy his work but many of his paintings are on my favorites list. On the way downtown, I was struck by the wispy Cirrus clouds. Fantastic formations. Made it downtown just fine and really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2120,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}