October 16, 2017 at 5:29 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Places, Recommended, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: Albuquerque, art, Cee Neuner, discoveries, Edinburgh, England, memories, Mondays, museums, music, websites
How SYW (Share Your World) Works:
Create your post answering the four questions below, then post a link to Cee Neuner’s blog in the comment box.
- If you had to move to a country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
- What color would you like your bedroom to be?
- What makes you Happy? Make a list of things in your life that bring you joy.
- What inspired you or what did you appreciate this past week?
Here are self’s answers:
If you had to move to a country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
The Philippines, since I grew up there.
England, because I adore theatre and everything related to. And because it’s an easy hop from there to my other favorite country: Ireland.
What color would you like your bedroom to be?
A deep red. The kind I first saw in Edinburgh, in 2012.
What makes you happy? Make a list of things in your life that bring you joy.
- Discovering new places
- Visiting museums
- Being with son, his wife Jennie, and their friends
- Writing
- Reading a good book
- Looking at flowers
What inspired you or what did you appreciate this past week?
Eating Bone Marrow Tapas at Mas Tapas y Vino on 2nd in downtown Albuquerque.
Haven’t had bone marrow in soooo long. Self loved it growing up in the Philippines.
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October 14, 2017 at 5:53 am (Artists and Writers, Dearest Mum, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Links, Pianos, Places, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: art, Bath, England, Fridays, memories, museums, New York, Paris, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, Wordpress
Very interesting challenge from The Daily Post this week!
SCALE
Photography ” . . . is all about perspective, where and how you place other objects in the frame . . . ” — Erica V., The Daily Post
Here are some examples of SCALE: (1) at the Louvre, in front of the Mona Lisa (2) in Bath’s Royal Crescent, the entrance to Royal Crescent # 1 and (3) in New York’s Russian Tea Room, next to Carnegie Hall. Self’s first trip to New York City was with Dearest Mum, who once played at Carnegie Hall. This September, she took Dearest Mum, who’s now past 80, for lunch at the Russian Tea Room. We had the best time.
The Louvre, May 2017
Royal Crescent No. 1 (Royal Crescent Museum), Bath
The Russian Tea Room, 57th St., New York City (Next to Carnegie Hall): Dearest Mum took self here, her first time in New York City, decades ago. The place hasn’t changed a bit.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 8, 2017 at 8:21 pm (destinations, Places, postaday, Recommended, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: art, London, memories, museums, New York, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
There’s a theme to the photographs here, self’s second post on The Daily Post’s Photo Challenge of the week, PEDESTRIANS.
- The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City:
- The Atrium, Robert Lehman Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
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September 25, 2017 at 6:48 pm (destinations, Flowers, Places, Plays, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: art, Cal Shakes, California, memories, Mondays, museum, New York, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Bruins Amphitheatre, Orinda
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City: The squares are on the ground level, the woman taking the picture is on the 4th? 5th? Floor.
New York City, View from the Chelsea District
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September 13, 2017 at 3:25 pm (Food and Drink, Links, Places, Recommended, television, Traveling)
Tags: art, comedy, exhibits, museums, New York, photography, websites
Love doing Cee’s Fun Foto Challenges!
The Theme for this week is the Letter D.
D is for DECK:
8th Floor, Whitney Museum of American Art, Gansevoort Street, New York City: The view from the rooftop café is simply fabulous.
D is for DOTS:
Alexander Calder at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 8th Floor
D is for (Remember the) DATE:
Billboard, New York City, Early September 2017
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 5, 2017 at 8:18 pm (Artists and Writers, Places, postaday, Relatives, Tel Aviv, Traveling)
Tags: art, discoveries, Garden, memories, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress, Ying
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is STRUCTURE. All week, self has been finding inspiration for that theme, poking around her house in Redwood City.
The first two pics are from self’s garden. The third is a postcard featuring a painting by Reuven Rubin, whose work she discovered in Tel Aviv, 2008. She flew to Tel Aviv to visit Dear Departed Ying, her sister-in-law and loyal friend. Ying passed away a few months later. On her last day in Tel Aviv, she met Yosef Halper at his bookstore in the Novo Tzedek district. She’s always wanted to go back. Maybe next year.
This leaf of a giant algave plant she bought just three years ago
Pot of Lime Thyme
She just found this postcard, inserted in a magazine she’d saved — from 2011. The painting is by Reuven Rubin.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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August 31, 2017 at 7:59 pm (destinations, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: art, exhibits, museums, Paris, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
The structure of living things, the intricacy of our own bodies, even the components of human-made technology; all can be sources of wonder.
— Jen H., The Daily Post
- Stairwell, the Louvre (Even a lowly stairwell is capable of stunning, if one remembers to look UP)
- The Main Courtyard of the Louvre (Self liked this picture because it emphasizes the relationship between the glass pyramids and the stately buildings)
- Winged Victory of Samothrace (Self took so many pictures of just this one piece, but this is the one that showed most of the ceiling)
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August 28, 2017 at 3:23 pm (Artists and Writers, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: art, California, exhibits, Mondays, postaday, postaweek, Sacramento, summer, Wordpress
This is yet another post on The Daily Post Photo Challenge this week: CORNER
“A corner is the point where converging lines, edges, or sides meet.” — Merriam-Webster
First, a wee window in a tiny apartment:
Next: paintings.
Self was in Sacramento for part of July, and was able to attend a reception downtown for the artist Jessica Dunne. Her paintings have a haunting, Edward Hopper-esque quality:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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August 5, 2017 at 3:16 pm (Places, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: art, inspiration, London, museum, restaurants, short story, work-in-progress, writing process
Setting, The Wallace Collection, London:
Fragonard’s “The Swing” Originally, the lady was to have been pushed by a bishop. But this was evidently too much. So, instead, we have an elderly gent sitting on a stone balustrade, in the shadows behind.
- She walked past the Flemish Masters in the East Drawing Room, strode past Titian’s Madonna and David Teniers the Younger’s the Deliverance of Saint Peter.
Later, self took her notes and added this sentence (while having lunch at Chez Nous, 22 Hanway Street):
- She was more of a café person than her friend Maxine, who’d set the bar pretty high, whose idea of dinner was to go to the Ottolenghi in Islington, who had impressed her parents into gifting her a trip to London (she couldn’t be bothered to learn French, so London it was) by getting an A on a paper about the Thirty Years War (“1618 to 1648,” she told her mother, Cici, who blushed with maternal pride).
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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August 4, 2017 at 2:57 pm (Artists and Writers, postaday)
Tags: art, exhibits, Fridays, museum, postaday, postaweek, San Francisco, Wordpress
from the Exhibit “Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade,” at the CA Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Mark Rothko’s No. 14, 1960, at the SF Museum of Modern Art
Edvard Munch’s Night in Saint-Cloud, at the SF Museum of Modern Art
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