Waiting for Spring in Minneapolis

This is from last Thursday night/Friday morning. We are expecting more tonight. A friend mentioned that she's expecting to hear of an Annie Proulx-style weather related homicide soon. I couldn't agree more; just hope you aren't reading about me in the papers.

My only consolation is that I don't have to shovel.

This is the latest addition to my home decorating color therapy (found it on eBay, went to MOA to see what else may be available before taking the plunge, found it there for 1/3 the price!):

Purgatory goes on and on, doesn't it?  One of my mother's sisters stopped by with her husband when I was there.  I want people to visit her, but I don't want them to see her the way she is.

It's easy to understand why family members quit visiting people in nursing homes.

Found this at the Morgan Library in New York - first edition!  Every woman should read it at least once in her life (I was going to say every woman who's ever felt moments of insanity, but what woman hasn't?):

Cool columns from The Cloisters:

I found this very funny.  Kind of reminded me of John Waters' story of going to a Care Bear movie by himself.  Everyone in the theater moved away from him.  Funny and sad, I guess, that they have to post notice in the parks.

This is apparently the new approach to waiting areas in airports.  People watching isn't nearly as fun as it used to be, partly because there is no interaction between humans, only humans with their machines.

NYC: Shopping

Knitty City was the only yarn shop I visited. The purchases shown include a hank of yarn sold by a kitty rescue group (never seen it before). I hope to blend at least one of the hanks into another Color Affection shawl. Colors are pretty close - reddish, purple and charcoal.

And of course, there are books. One from the Sketchbook Project at the Brooklyn Art Library and two from The Cloisters, because I like biographies and history.

NYC: Seen

• Central Park
• from snow in Minneapolis to 80 degrees; I had to take a walk
• Guggenheim Museum
• the building is irresistible
• Kandinsky (one of my favorites)
• Gutai (interesting if not my thing)
• Whitney
• From Calder to O'Keefe (ok but nothing new)
• Jay DeFeo (meh)
• Blues for Smoke (a so-so exhibit)
• overall this was a disappointment
• they dismantled Calder's Circus, which is unforgivable
• Morgan Library
• Miss La La (wonderful and fascinating)
• Drawing Surrealism (loved it)
• Treasures from the Vault (~sigh~)
• an indescribably amazing experience
• Brooklyn Art Library
• Sketchbooks
• very fun to see what others have done with their sketchbooks
• not sure I'll be able to do another after seeing what others have done with their sketchbooks
• Jersey Boys
• Motown was sold out, The Book of Mormon was too expensive
• I have no regrets
• unbelievably, I had never seen a musical on Broadway before
• Cloisters
• can't understand why I'd never gone before
• wonderful, wonderful, wonderful
• Frick
• The Impressionist Line
• highlight: Holbein's portrait of Sir Thomas Moore
• Met
• Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity (great exhibit)
• At War With the Obvious (had to pass through)
• International Center for Photography
• We Went Back (stunning, moving, enlightening)

NYC: Images

Narrative and yarn shots later.

Hats!

Rose, the Gypsy is in New York. She sent pictures of these wonderful hats:
This architecturally inspired one is my personal favorite:
I've always loved hats. I like to knit them too. Today is a cold and blustery winter day, which would be ok, except we have no snow. Cold is only ok when there's snow. In the meantime, I'll wear a hat to ward off the elements...