Starlight Art Glass Studio

The temple missionary group has a lot of activities planned. Last Monday on our P-day we went to Burlington, Iowa, to tour a stained glass studio. 

This is part of their lobby. Lots of beautiful glasswork.

Arline's mother would have loved all their birdhouses


In addition to their glasswork, they have some side hustles: selling koi, metal and glass yard sculptures, and aquatic plants.
One of their koi ponds

Yard art

Dave's Favorite*--The Drgaonfly Story
   In a pond, under the lily pads, water beetles live. Sometimes they feel immense sadness when a beetle climbs the stem of a lily pad and is gone forever.
   One day, a little beetle climbed the stem. She was sure she would return home to tell what she discovered. She broke through the surface of the water and lay on the top of the lily pad. As she slept in the warmth of the sun, her body changed into a magnificent, colorful dragonfly with wings. She soared and discovered a new world. She remembered her family and friends and wanted to ease their pain, but her new dragonfly body could not break the surface of the water to return to them.
   She knew, when it was their time, they too would join her and fly off into a joyous new life.

*He found this at a pond in Halifax in a park dedicated to those who have lost a child

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The following picture is more of what we expected to see. It was taken from a website talking about the making of the stained glass window that is now in the Baptistry at the Nauvoo Temple. Link


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