Jan 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
On Sunday Jan. 26th the sun appeared! this was fantastic; i’m not sure how long it had been cloudy but i know that we haven’t seen it again since sunday. so i went a little bit bonkers taking geese photos on the lake that day. i mean, pretty crazy. i think...
Jan 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
On January 22nd it was still gray but not nearly as cold so i took some more photos of the geese. You can see that they weren’t too bothered by me since this whole group was sleeping. i love it when they’re asleep with one leg tucked up. i like this one...
Jan 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
On Tuesday January 21st there were lots of geese in the yard and down on the recently-frozen lake so I decided to walk down and take some photos. And of course because i was creeping down to the water they got nervous and flew out of the yard and onto the lake. i love...
Jan 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
Brrrr…well, it’s not so bad today as yesterday. But still. January. not my favorite month. Lester doesn’t mind. I think i took this when walking from mom’s house to mine. so many deer relaxing. this is one of the lights in front and i was...
Jan 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
today i realized that it’s 20/2020, and i like that. so hopefully we all had extra 2020 vision about life. and then it’ll be 02202020 before we know it! ok then, grace
Jan 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sweetie got real brave in December and sat up on the kitty house. sometimes she’s brave, sometimes she spends her time up in the upstairs bedroom. when i got up this morning she was right here but then she decided she needed to be back upstairs. kevin bought all...
Jan 18, 2020 | New York 2019
After dinner in Times Square we headed over to see something called “Slava’s Snowshow;” one day at the TKTS booth a guy had told us about the show and said it was amazing, so we decided to go. The show was created by Slava Polunin, a Russian born in...
Jan 15, 2020 | New York 2019
Friday night, dec. 13th, Mom and i had spent the afternoon at the Whitney Museum and started to make our back uptown. it was relatively warm and rainy, and we started walking towards a bus stop. we found one, and then finally a bus pulled up…but then it just sat...
Jan 11, 2020 | New York 2019
My favorite thing at the Whitney Museum. mom and i had both seen a photo of this work in the New Yorker. A kitchen made of beads! this is the best wide shot i took, except i caught part of a woman who was standing in the way over in the right. but after a lot of...
Jan 9, 2020 | New York 2019
After taking so many photos at the Met i was determined to not go so crazy at the Whitney. It’s a cool museum, and not so big, plus one entire floor was closed so we didn’t have to worry about it. we decided to start with lunch, but on the way i had to...
Jan 6, 2020 | New York 2019
Of december, that is. our last day in NYC. we took the subway to the South Street Seaport TKTS booth and decided to see the show “Slava’s Snowshow,” even though we didn’t know anything about it. a guy at the booth had described it to us, saying...
Jan 5, 2020 | New York 2019
after looking at the “Making Marvels” exhibit at the Met we headed off to find some lunch. on the way i had to take a few quick photos of these faberge beauties. This is an “Imperial Lilies-of-the-Valley” basket. This basket is considered the...
Jan 5, 2020 | New York 2019
After our day at the Met on Thurs. Dec. 12th, Mom and I went to the south end of Central Park. i’d hoped to see the Christmas decorations in different hotel lobbies and stores. I had a list of hotels, a few of which were right there on 57th Street, on the south...
Jan 4, 2020 | New York 2019
i hope somebody reading this is interested in these objects because I thought they were truly wonderful. This is the piece on the picture of the exhibit; it’s a Celestial Globe with clockwork from 1579, made by Gerhard Emmoser. Emmoser, who served three...
Jan 3, 2020 | New York 2019
first, they kept referring to the word “kunstkammer” in many of the objects in the collection and i didn’t read anywhere what that meant. i found it on the website. Each of the remarkable pieces in this gallery proved the maker’s—and by...
Jan 2, 2020 | New York 2019
After looking at the Impressionists at the Met on Thursday, Dec. 12th, mom and i wandered around a little and then walked by an exhibit and decided to go inside. It’s called “Making Marvels: Science & Splendor at the Courts of Europe.” And it...
Jan 1, 2020 | New York 2019
My favorite thing to do at the Met is stare at the Impressionist paintings. I feel i never have time to properly take the time to look at them, but i’m always happy for the opportunity. I know i’ve posted these very pictures before, but here they are...
