PORT ST. LUCIE — The Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens is now showcasing some of my oil painting. They will be on display until Jan 4, 2012. All of the artwork on display are for sale. The exhibition is open to the public at the Port St. Lucie Botanical Gardens, 2410 S.E. Westmoreland Blvd., Port St. Lucie.
It was nerve-wracking enough to watch my son, Air Force Col. Ronald J. Garan Jr., lift off from Cape Canaveral on the Space Shuttle Discovery in June 2008 for a mission to the International Space Station.
Imagine what is going through my mind as I anticipate his lift off on his next mission to the space station, this time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz TMA 21 spacecraft.
A Sun Sentinel.com reporter called to get my reaction to the event and they posted this article “Astronaut’s Treasure Coast mom nervous about launch from Kazakhstan“