July 13, 2017 at 9:57 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, Family, Flowers, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Niece, Personal Bookshelf, Philippine History, postaday, Relatives)
Tags: art, California, exhibits, museums, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, Sacramento, San Francisco, Wordpress
What is a collage? In the words of Michelle Weber over at The Daily Post, it is “an assortment, a collection, a hodgepodge.”
Here are a couple of shots that show a collage:
- The printed dress. So fabulous. The wearer was self’s niece, Rina. We were having lunch at Boiling Crab:
Rina Villanueva, July 2017
- An assortment of reading matter: Everything from a Playbill to a book written by someone she used to know in college, Rick Manapat. The book, History of Negros, is about an island in the Philippines called Negros (The Spanish gave it the name, in the 16th century):
What Self Found in Son’s Room: July 2017
- A collection of roses on a hat at the recent exhibit “Degas, Impressionism and the Paris Millinery Trade” at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor:
Woman’s Hat, circa 1910: The artist went by the name “Madame George”
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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July 5, 2017 at 9:43 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Family, Flowers, Niece, Places, postaday, Relatives, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: Gardens, museums, Paris, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Think about the things, places, or people that connect us. What’s your take?
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, The Daily Post
Below, a path through the gardens at Giverney. A path takes a person from one place to another. A path is therefore a bridge. Well, okay it’s more than a bridge. It’s a journey.
Giverney: June 2017
And here is the Eiffel Tower, a tight shot that shows the first level bridge (covered in glass) between the two spans:
The Eiffel Tower: May 2017
Finally, just a plain old bridge. It spans the Seine. On one bank are the Tuileries and the Place de la Concorde. On the other, just visible on the left, the Musée d’Orsay.
Walking from the Tuileries to the Musée d’Orsay: May 2017
The reason self got to Paris this year was all due to her niece (on her Dad’s side), Irene. She planned the trip, and made it fun. More fun than self usually has in her solitary wanderings. Thanks a bunch, Irene!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 11, 2017 at 4:58 pm (destinations, Places, postaday, Recommended, Sundays, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: art, Bath, discoveries, England, history, museums, postaday, postaweek, praise, Roman Empire, Wordpress
And self does mean magnificent.
The Royal Crescent in Bath takes her breath away. Even after seeing it for the third or fourth time.
The shape is an ellipsis cut in half. Who thought of this curved shape? So perfect. It’s almost mystical.
The architect (whose name self immediately forgot) was inspired, according to the guide on the walking tour, by the Roman Coliseum (which is itself elliptical. Really? Self never knew!)
Royal Crescent
Royal Crescent No. 1 (Royal Crescent Museum): Self is so happy that this woman came out of the entrance just as self was getting ready to take this shot.
Self had been on the Grand Parade, many times. But she never looked over the bridge to the river below. She finally did, yesterday, and — GAH! Rapids! Who would have thought?
Only after looking at the river for several moments did she realize that the gulls were walking on the edge of the top rapids. Grand illusion! And there are kayaks over there!
The River Avon from the Grand Parade
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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June 8, 2017 at 8:23 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Explorers, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: art, England, iconic, London, museums, Paris, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is ORDER:
Sure, it’s fun to celebrate chaos every once in a while. But it’s others’ visions of order and harmony, from colonnades to geometric patterns on tiles, that most often intrigue me . . .
— Ben Huberman, The Daily Post
Architecture has to have a sense of order. Otherwise, things just don’t get built.
Here are three beautiful examples of architecture self recently encountered on her travels:
The London Eye, 7 June 2017
Apartment Windows, the Marais, Paris: 2 June 2017
The Collection of Islamic Art at the Louvre, 1 June 2017
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 24, 2017 at 9:10 pm (Artists and Writers, Eavesdropping, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: art, memories, museums, Paris, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is EVANESCENT.
What is fleeting, what is most evanescent.
Look at the pictures she chose to take at the Musee de l’Orangerie. Instead of waiting for people to clear out of her photograph, they became part of the moment. And that was even before she found out what this week’s Photo Challenge was.
Moments. That’s all she was interested in capturing this afternoon. Apparently.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 22, 2017 at 1:46 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Food and Drink, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: art, happiness, Mondays, museums, Paris, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
It was a gorgeous day!
Self strolled down the Champs-Elysees. She saw a shrine on the sidewalk, draped with French flags and flowers. Oh. So that’s where the policeman was shot.
She bought a salad from a brasserie and decided to eat in the Tuileries, right in front of the Musee L’Orangerie (where the Monets are) but she did not bother lining up for a ticket. She hates lines.
Instead, she sat outside, watching people:
The Tuileries, Monday Afternoon: Is that a Brancusi? Or a Picasso? Or a Henry Moore?
The wide avenues were alive with strollers, and the trees were so green:
And guess what she saw, over on the other side of the Place de la Concorde:
Iconic: 22 May 2017
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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May 3, 2017 at 3:53 pm (destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Cork, discoveries, happiness, Ireland, museums, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is WANDERLUST.
- Have you traveled anywhere exciting lately? This week, let’s see where you’ve been.
— David W., The Daily Post
Right now, self is in the beautiful city of Cork. Since it was such a gorgeous day, self went for a walk and wound up exploring the grounds of the UCC (University College, Cork):
Crossing the River Lee
The Glucksman Gallery, in University College – Cork
Lower Grounds of UCC, Just Outside the Glucksman
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 26, 2017 at 8:55 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Flowers, Lists, Places, postaday, Sundays, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: art, England, Gardens, Ireland, London, museums, postaday, postaweek, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Wordpress
- “Sometimes it’s fun to take a step back from interpretive challenges and just celebrate a color: green!”
— Michelle W., The Daily Post
The window shot is from her bedroom in Unit # 1 of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Annaghmakerrig.
The woman in the portrait is Vanessa Bell (of Bloomsbury fame), painted by Duncan Grant. The painting hangs in the British National Portrait Gallery.
The snowdrops were in the backyard of her friend Dodo Stanley. Self visited her in Driffield, East Riding, in early March.
View from Bedroom Window, Unit # 1, Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Vanessa Bell, by Duncan Grant, in the British National Gallery
Snowbells, Backyard of Dodo Stanley in East Riding
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March 22, 2017 at 9:06 am (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: California, England, Golden Gate Park, London, memories, museums, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, San Francisco, Wordpress
If you’re physically on top of a thing or place — a mountain, a skyscraper — what type of scene do you want to share in your frame?
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, The Daily Post
For this week’s photo challenge, ATOP, self pulled from her Archive:
Fall 2016: Main Lobby of the de Young Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park: View from the 2nd Floor
Summer 2016: The Tate Modern is housed in what used to be the Battersea Power Station. In keeping with its industrial spirit, everything in the Tate Modern has that utilitarian feel. Even the restaurant, on the 6th floor. It’s called The Kitchen. The Harry Potter Bridge (Formal Name: the Millenium Bridge) is to the right.
Spring 2015: The Portrait Café, British National Portrait Gallery
Note to dear blog readers: The Portrait Cafe hosts an afternoon tea, which is booked weeks in advance. The day self showed up, early March, she could not get a seat. So if you would like to see this fabulous view while having tea, book in advance.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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March 9, 2017 at 10:55 am (Artists and Writers, Food and Drink, postaday, Recommended, Sayings, Traveling)
Tags: exhibits, inspiration, museums, postaday, postaweek, wisdom, Wordpress
- There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. — Jonas Salk, quoted in The Daily Post
March is a very significant month in the calendar year. It represents the beginning of spring, hope, everything. Self is in Ireland, so she’s full of hope right now!
Here are three signs, all food-related, which she saw when she visited the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, last month. The current exhibit (through mid-September 2017) is Yummm! The History, Fantasy, and Future of Food.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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