Now we've leaped into the Disney scenario, along with the all the other however-many millions of people who've traveled here from around the world or whatever planets they came from.
It's pretty amazing what they do at Disney every day. And then at the end of a day, at night when the fireworks boom and sparkle overhead, it seems like a large contingent of all those Magic Kingdom gawkers decide to leave at about the same time, barreling out of there in massive members.
This huge throng gets directed out of the park, up to the monorail, out to the busses and the boats, and it is amazing to me that the Disney people have this great daily egress all computed and figured out and so well-managed. It seems to go without a hitch, this progressively steady movement of thousands of sedate, highly-entertained people trundling out in semi-darkness, about half of them kids, a gargantuan flow of folks that is being directed by mature WDW employees waving flashlights and looking as if they enjoy what they're doing while all of us cattle-like crowds are obviously enjoying the whole trip that's been projected on us so agreeably through these many years of developing Disney expertise.
So this morning I'm sitting in the big resort over here somewhere in Orlando and feeling relaxed and refreshed because we, like however many millions of other working people (you'd have to be working somewhere to afford all this) are here in the planet-perfect central Florida springtime, and I moved to share a couple of pics with you that indicate what's going on.
One pic I took yesterday. You've probably seen a print of this famous painting by Emanuel Leutze.
Now here's a funny thought I had this morning: what would George Washington have thought about all this?
It's amazing how much the world has changed since Washington crossed the Delaware River in order to surprise attack the occupying armies of King George III, and thereby accomplish the revolutionary crossing by which our national independence was wrestled from from those stuffy old Brits. But you've gotta love 'em, gotta love them Brits. After all that, they've turned out to be pretty good friends and Allies. And I think quite of few them are ambling around here at Disney just now.
But here's another pic that I'll lay in front of your eyes. I thought of it this morning. It's not a Disney pic, but it expresses a wonder that's on my mind. The photo was taken a year ago at the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, on the absolute other side of our country.
What I'm pondering here is the color, and source of the color in the image. In that greenhouse where this pic was snapped, there were hundreds, yay thousands of very colorful flowers.
What you see here is a very interesting plant that offers an intense red bloom, which hides beneath stripy leaves. But here's the catch. The intense blue here, and the yellow flourishes that capture your attention are not, as at first they seem, part of the flower, but rather, an imposition of colored light that has shone down through colored facets in the overhead glass roof of the conservatory. At first glance, all the hues seem to blend in riotously colorful montage of flowery exuberance.
Images we see are not always what at first they appear to be. When I was a kid growing up in early-1960's America, Disney had a TV program that was custom-tailored for all of us newly-prospering postwar suburbanizing Americans who were at that time going crazy with millions of purchases of a new technology called --haha! -- color TV! On Sunday nights, we'd watch Disney's Wonderful World of Color, and it was pretty amazing, even more amazing to us than, say, what you'd see today on YouTube or Facebook or Instagram or blahblahblah whatever.
And guess what! Last night as we were piling out of there with all those millions of temp-Floridians, I saw the person who used to host the Wonderful World of Color on Sunday nights.
I saw the real Tinkerbell!
I guess it was because I wished upon a star.
Glass Chimera
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