November 13, 2021 at 2:17 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Flowers, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: art, California, Gardens, Golden Gate Park, museums, photo challenge, San Francisco, Stanford
Self is waaaaay behind but she’s still manfully posting. Someday she will catch up.
For this PPAC Challenge, self wanted to focus on outdoor art.
Stanford campus is full of outdoor art, but this one, in a grove of oak trees near the entrance to the Anderson Collection, really spoke to her.
Reaching Toward Warmer Suns by Kiyan Williams
This one’s just outside the de Young Museum café, in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. She doesn’t know who the artists are. An interview with the designer of the sculpture garden talks about the concept of the design, but not the individual artists whose works are pictured, which is a crying shame.
Finally, a little garden shed in a very wee garden store in Woodside. Self will just keep the name of the store to herself for now, but it’s been featured in Architectural Digest, and ever since then, it’s been impossible to find parking, unless you go right at store opening.
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November 12, 2021 at 3:22 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Dearest Mum, Family, Holidays, Movies, Pianos, Places, Plays, Recommended, Weather, Women Writers)
Tags: art, biographies, Cal Shakes, COVID Reading, environment, Ethel Rosenberg, exhibits, favorites, Golden Gate Park, Grimdark, Halloween, history, Judy Chicago, Literary Magazines, memories, murals, museums, mysteries, noir, Palo Alto, Pembroke Magazine, photo challenge, Pismo Beach, porch, reading lists, road trip, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, short story, Stanford, summer, Thomas Perry
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November 7, 2021 at 8:18 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, postaday, Recommended, Sundays)
Tags: art, Life in Colour, museum, music, photo challenge, restaurants, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo
Here’s what host Travel Words says about the colours selected for the November Life in Colour challenge:
- This month we will be looking for Black or Grey. Black is not a colour at all. Theoretically it is the absence of all colour. Yet black is distinctive. Lines are bolder, shadows deeper, colours brighter against a black background.
Below, self’s Black or Grey gallery:
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October 15, 2021 at 1:16 pm (Artists and Writers, Links, postaday)
Tags: art, exhibits, fashion, Fridays, life of B, memories, museums, Paris, photo challenge, San Francisco
How much fun is it to join the Squares Challenge? Super super fun!
This month, the theme is the PAST (or Past Squares, your choice!)
Self has been looking back at the memorable exhibits she’s seen over the years.
In 2017, the Legion of Honor had an exhibit on Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade. Self had a blast! Here are a few pictures from the exhibit:
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October 10, 2021 at 2:50 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Lists, postaday, Recommended, Sundays)
Tags: art, exhibits, Frida Kahlo, Golden Gate Park, inspirations, Judy Chicago, memories, museums, opportunities, San Francisco
For today’s Past Squares challenge, she’s posting a couple of photos from two big exhibits she saw this year: the Frida Kahlo and Judy Chicago exhibits, both in the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park.
Self had tickets to see the Frida Kahlo exhibit last year, but the week she was supposed to go, the whole city abruptly went into pandemic lockdown mode and stayed locked down into 2021. As soon as the de Young re-opened to the public, just this past spring, self rushed over. YAY!
The Frida Kahlo exhibit was followed by the Judy Chicago retrospective (which is still on; everyone within driving distance should go: it is FANTASTIC!)
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September 7, 2021 at 5:18 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: art, exhibits, Golden Gate Park, museums, photo challenge, Ruth Asawa, San Francisco
Self does not know whether she’s interpreting the challenge correctly: Find a picture that contains both GRAY and ORANGE.
She didn’t think she could find any pictures that fit, but — will wonders never cease? She found two pictures from a visit to the de Young Museum, a few weeks ago: Ruth Asawa art!
Without further ado:
Ruth Asawa: Permanent Installation, Education Tower, de Young Museum, San Francisco
Ruth Asawa: Permanent Installation, Education Tower, de Young Museum, San Francisco
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
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August 25, 2021 at 7:56 pm (Artists and Writers, Flowers, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, postaday, Recommended)
Tags: art, exhibits, flower photography, Life in Colour, museums, Oakland, photo challenge, restaurants, San Francisco, summer
Oh, self had fun this morning, searching through her garden for any red blooms. There were a few choices, but the ones that photographed best were geraniums. In her archives, there was this sweet little mini-Cooper parked in front of Horn Barbecue in Oakland.
Self is throwing in a Calder from last spring’s Calder/Picasso at the de Young Museum.
Thanks so much to Life in Colour for hosting this challenge.
Stay safe, dear blog readers. Stay safe.
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July 13, 2021 at 12:01 am (Books, Family, Food and Drink, plans, Recommended, Relatives, Surprises, Weather)
Tags: COVID Reading, English writers, favorites, Kent, Mondays, mysteries, novel, reading lists, restaurants, San Francisco, summer, suspense
How do the pensioners in The Thursday Murder Club know about the Dark Web when self only heard about it a month ago?
She’s on p. 181.
Also, it turns out, the DCI likes Oasis. OASIS.
Normally, she would just barrel through to the end (especially as it’s getting pretty exciting), but today has had all sorts of appointments, and she’s meeting someone for dinner — DINNER! — at the Beach Chalet. Her cousin from Manila, who’s only here for a few days.
Stay cool (it’s hard, that sun’s like a laser), dear blog readers. Stay cool.
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July 9, 2021 at 4:59 pm (destinations, Holidays, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Weather)
Tags: Fourth of July, Fridays, Golden Gate Park, memorials, photo challenge, San Francisco, summer
For this July #TreeSquare challenge, self is sharing more pictures she took in Golden Gate Park last Sunday, the Fourth of July. It was a beautiful day: cool! What a nice respite from the heat down on the Peninsula.
The statue is a memorial to Marie Bonner. The log cabin was something self stumbled open while wandering around the picnic area:
Stay cool, dear blog readers. Stay cool.
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July 2, 2021 at 4:34 pm (destinations, Links, Places, postaday, Recommended, Weather)
Tags: art, blogs, environment, Fridays, inspiration, museums, nature, photo challenge, San Francisco, summer
Thanks to The Life of B for the #TreeSquare Challenge!
Self’s first post for the challenge are the trees of Land’s End, San Francisco, just outside the Legion of Honor. She visited the museum in June. (The trees are in the background, not the focal point, sorry)
These coastal California cypresses have endured wind and fog for many years — even, centuries. Hopefully, they will endure for centuries more!
Stay cool, dear blog readers. Stay cool.
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