365 11/9

Human beings can be beautiful.

If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault.

It is what they do to themselves that make them ugly.

365 5/18

Never change your point of view

When I run dry

I stop awhile and think of you

The Fool on the Hill

Before my parents and I visited Falling Water, we spent the morning visiting Kentuck Knob, another Frank Lloyd House in the area.

Kentuck Knob was built almost 20 years after Falling Water and is still in private hands. The house is subtle and magnificent. Yet, the owner wanted no pictures of the inside of the house. Mostly, I think it's because the house is cluttered with his collections, and the opposite of what Wright intended.

Unlike Falling Water, which is fit into the side of a hill next to a brook, Kentuck Knob sits on top of a hill, with view of the valley. As you circle down the hill, the owner has created an incredible sculpture garden.

So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright

Last April, I went to a family wedding near Uniontown, PA in Fayette County.

As a kid, I used to go to Ohiopyle in Fayette County with my cousin and her family where they had a cottage along the Youghiogheny River. We'd swim, water ski and go tubing during summer vacations. Now, my younger cousin was getting married just miles away from that summer cottage.

I had been trying to get back to that area for years to visit the Frank Lloyd Wright houses' Falling Water and Kentuck Nob. My family is from Western PA. However their hometown is not close to where the houses are located, and during our numerous visits, we were never able to arrange a side trip.

My parents and I thought that where the wedding was and the Wright houses were would be on opposite ends of the county. And, we tried to plan accordingly. As it turns out, they were only about 15 miles away.