Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm sure everyone in America is busy today preparing Thanksgiving dinner! 
Enjoy the preparations today and your family gathering tomorrow.
Give thanks with a happy heart! 
Happy Thanksgiving to all!

"To make a glorious day complete,

To make each hour full and sweet,

To thank the Lord for life worth living--

That is the real and true Thanksgiving."

~ Abigail Falk

We will have lots of family favorites for our Thanksgiving dinner! Nothing too fancy. We usually begin our dinner with baked lasagna or macaroni, and then I serve the herb rubbed roasted turkey, a sausage, apple and chestnut bread stuffing, candied sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, a light and a dark turkey gravy, stuffed mushrooms, cranberry sauce, and vegetables.  This year we will have brussel sprouts with a cider vinegar and bacon dressing, roasted cauliflower with yellow peppers and capers, honey roasted butternut squash, and a spinach pie.  Dessert will be home made apple pie or pocket pies, pumpkin pie, maple bundt cake, assorted chocolates and an ice cream cake for my daughter's birthday!

We have much to be thankful for -- our faith, our family, our friends. Gratitude for things we never take for granted, like good health or gainful employment.  We have hopes and dreams for the future....and a new grandson on the way in 2011. We give thanks for all!

Enter into His gates with Thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise; be thankful unto Him,and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endureth to all generations.

~Psalm 100; 4-5

We will also enjoy a dark chocolate turkey from the chocolatier Jacques Torres, but not from his Brooklyn D.U.M.B.O store which I have visited before, click this link to read about that, but from his Manhattan "SoHo" store (and of course there will more about this in a future blog post, so stay tuned!)

"November comes

And November goes,

With the last red berries

And the first white snows.

With night coming early,

And dawn coming late,

And ice in the bucket

And frost by the gate.

The fires burn

And the kettles sing,

And earth sinks to rest

Until next spring."

- Elizabeth Coatsworth

Have a beautiful and blessed Thanksgiving Day!

I'm adding this post to Sue's It's a Very Cherry World's Rednesday Jenny Matlock's "Alphabe Thursday" as this week it is a special Thanksgiving event, and Sandi of The Whistlestop Cafe's Cooking "Friday Favorites Linky Party."

♥ I am grateful for all my blog friends and readers --

I value getting to know you and each and every comment I receive.

You make me so very happy --

 more than you could possibly know! ♥

Chihuly Glass at the Borgata

As a tease, I showed the photos above in my Saturday post asking if anyone could guess what they were. Quite a few commenters knew they were works by the glass artist Dale Chihuly.  Dale Chihuly is one of the foremost glass artists, with works in over 200 museum collections worldwide. Chihuly is primarily known for moving blown glass into the realm of large-scale contemporary art glass sculptures.

(All photos will enlarge if clicked on once and then again when they open on a new page.)

The examples I showed are located in the Borgata Hotel and Casino located at 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, New Jersey. This forty-story hotel which opened in 2003 contains l2,000 guest rooms and suites. It hosts an assortment of fine dining restaurants, including the Old Homestead Steakhouse, Bobby Flay Steak, SeaBlue, Wolfgang Puck American Grille, Izakaya, and Fornelletto. It also contains a European-style, 54,000-square-foot Spa Toccare, two entertainment theaters that host headline act, 11 specialty boutiques, and a 161,000-square-foot casino floor incorporating 4,100 slot machines and 200 table games.

This beautiful chandelier is located in the "living room" for hotel guests.

A close-up of all the beautiful ornaments adorning the rings of the fixture.

The second picture was an extreme close-up of the Chihuly chandelier in the hotel's main entrance lobby.

It is a profusion of beautiful blown glass curlicues!

Glass columns grace both sides of the casino entrance.

A close-up of a portion of one of the glass columns.

Many other beautiful Chihuly chandeliers line the corridors of the hotel.

A photo mosaic of many more glass sculptures that are located throughout the Borgata Hotel.

This walkway planter feature also contained beautiful examples of Chihuly glass.

A photo mosaic of close-ups of the art glass flowers and plants

I really enjoyed looking at all the beautiful Chihuly glass in the Borgata, and I hope you did too!

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