Mon, 6-11:
Hickory Hollow RV Park, Somerset, PA:  Left this morning under cloudy skies heading to Fallingwater.  A beautiful drive through beautiful, scenic jungle.  Fallingwater sits on 1500 pristine acres of hardwood forest lush with rhododendron and mountain laurel.  This beautiful home was started in 1936 and is considered Frank Lloyd Wright’s most widely acclaimed work.  It was built for Pittsburgh department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann as a weekend home.  Much to the Kaufmann’s surprise, Wright designed the house to rise above the waterfall rather than facing it.  And the house and grounds were entrusted to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy in 1963 by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. with its setting, original furnishings and artwork intact.  There are original Picasso’s and Audubon’s in the house along with lots of Tiffany glass and other works of art.  But the house is the real art with its setting cascading down the hill right over the stream and falls.  Very dramatic.  Stopped for a late lunch in a little town on the Old National Road and then back home.

Fallingwater

Built right over a waterfall on the Bear Run

Rhododendron in bloom