...At the Smithsonian.
Monday July was pretty quiet on the home front. In the evening, I went to a presentation at the Smithsonian that was very remarkable. It was billed as "Cooking/Traveling Solo" and was presented by Janice Waugh, who has a blog, www.solotravelerblog.com, and Joe Yonan, the Washington Post food and travel editor. Janice and Joe believe that single is the way to go, and presented some strong arguments to support the cause. I need to "percolate" that a bit, but understand their point. On the cooking, I certainly always treat myself to good food and never question the fact that I am "only one." so I think I am on track with that. On travel, I have been a bit reluctant to go by myself and always say that I want to travel with a guy, but I will keep up with Janice's blog and I think I could do it solo, based on her encouragement. She has some tricks that make sense--including lots of good tips for women traveling by themselves.
On Tuesday, July 12, I walked with Sophia to Soccer Camp. Griffin has been doing it for several weeks, but it was Sophia's first day. Here's a picture of her with Coach David running one of their routines for warm-up.
After leaving her off, I got a chance to do some sketching and then go to museums. My sketches will be on www.plumgallery.blogspot.com and the pictures of my museum tour, which turned into a love of sculptures, can be seen at my picasa albums. Let me know if you want a link to that. But, as an appetizer, here is one of my favorites:
It is Roy Lichtenstein's "house." A one-dimensional plane, that looks three-dimensional. It was hard to choose from the many great sculptures I saw and so I recommend the Picasa album. The other great thing is that I saw ALL of the current exhibits at the Hirshhorn--starting at the top and moving down!!! And then went on to the Hirshhorn sculptures outside in the gardens. I then crossed over and went to the National Gallery's Sculpture garden where I had lunch. After all these outdoor sculptures, I went into the National Gallery West and connected with a talk about Thomas Cole that changed my whole impression of him I had thought his paintings were very sentimental and learned how challenging they are.
I connected with the family that night at Mr. Henry's. Here's a sketch I did of Mr. Henry's table set-up:
Wednesday was a very quiet day. We went to lunch at Matchbox, which is always a favorite for me, but I didn't take pictures. Later, we had some music making at home:
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