Art Museum @ MindSay

That was the weather forecast for today, funny ah?  And, it happened too.

Today we went to IHOP for  the morning, just made it in time not to be crowded with people who where celebrating fathers day. Then we did laundry (yay clean clothes)
Well today for the first time I went swimming in the Atlantic Ocean (Sachuest Beach), and it was quite smashing. Salty but fun, after about a half a hour in there I just lied about in the sun. Laying in the sun takes a lot out of someone who hasn't done that in a long time, Making all that vitamin D.
After that we stopped at a book store so we could look up some neat places to go to when we go to New York City and also D.C.  (If anyone has any IDEAS or knows of any really awesome places to go please tell me)
Then we headed over to the Navy Base, where I took a few pictures of the Newport bridge, and also a few photos of WWII Air Craft Carriers (there where two, one was being disassembled and the other one was being turned into a museum.) Number 59 which had one of the largest flight deck fires in Naval History.

I'm haveing tons of fun.

For New York City I was thinking about going to a few places
             American Museum of Natural History
             The Cloisters
             CHINATOWN
             Brooklyn Museum of Art

For D.C. I was thinking about going to
             International Spy Museum
             United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
             Folger Shakespeare Library
             Great Falls Park

Take care everyone, If you have any suggestions I'm open ears.

I got my bag back tonight so now I can expound about my last day in Texas and the journey home.

Saturday started a bit slower than Friday. We hung around the house for a bit before heading out to the art museum. It was so great. I was getting filled with creative ideas at every turn. There was an awesome digital moving exhibit called City Glow by Chiho Aoshima. OMG! It was amazing. We got to see a whole heap of art. Myclette, her hubby, and her daughter were all there.

After, we split off into different directions. Her hubby went to the movies, her daughter to grandmom's, and we headed out to get Environgirl and hit up the Chinese buffet. The food there was awesome. I had enough sushi to last me till my next craving haha. After that we all headed to the karaoke bar where we met up with a bunch of other bloggers *that I mentioned before*. Fave and Eve came in a bit later, but not by much. It was so much fun. I sang Fiona Apple's Criminal and Reba McIntyre's Why Haven't I Heard From You. I also made friends with the fantastic DJ Charlie. Such good times!

Alas, it was finally time to go home. The next day I would be heading out to my plane to go home...or so I thought.

Sunday started nice enough. We went to the store and bought some Blue Bell ice cream as well as a new do for me. We headed back to the house for lunch. Cajun style spaghetti cooked by Myclette's husband ... talk about delicious!!! I like to died ha. The ice cream was great, too. I was already packed up, so we headed out to the airport and got there in plenty of time.

They left me at the Delta gate and went home. I had to go in and find that my flight had been delayed. Turns out I would have to sit from 4pm to after 6 to get on my flight. I missed my connecting flight by ONE MINUTE and had to get a new flight rerouting me to Philly instead of Delaware so I could get picked up by my husband who had to work today. I went through 2 lines for 2 more hours of fun getting my flight and hotel situated, getting some food, then having to check in at the hotel with at least 100 other people after we FINALLY got on the shuttle to the hotel. I didn't get to bed till after midnight. *4 hours after we landed in ATL*. This morning everything went fine with the flight. It was packed to the brim.

Hubby and I had a time getting back to our car, but an hour later we were in it heading to the Delaware airport to get my bag which hadn't reached them yet. HOW ANNOYING >__< I had to wait till the flight I would have taken at 3pm to Delaware landed to see if my bag was on it. I got notified at 7:20pm that it was at the terminal and I went to pick it up an hour later. Thank God it came on the plane it was set to be on or I would have been beside myself.

I can't describe the feelings I had last night. I couldn't even speak without my voice being raspy from trying to hold back screams and sobs. I kept my cool mostly, other than a few tears of frustration. All in all Texas was great. I dont want to be on another plane for at least another year.

Howdy Howdy all!

 

I spent some time at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Sculpture Garden yesterday with the roomies. I saw my favorite painting of course--The Witches Sabbath by Salvatore Rossi (I can't find a reproduction or print of it ANYWHERE and I now think I might contact the Metropolitan Museum of Art Store to see if they sell a print of it...anyway how about some pics ya'll. now they saw me snapping photos in the museum and didnt run me outta there so I am assuming it was chill. My favorite was of an archway for a royal hut in Subsuharan Africa. The detail is gorgeous aint it?

 

 

How about some scenes from the sculpture garden? Here is one called Nude Flora. What I dont really care for is the fact that she is soooooo polished. Ya know smooth. It's like an airbrushed photo cuz she has no lumps and bumps but here she is.....

 

Now I love these two nude dudes, complete with ahem lumps and bumps ya'll

 

Now this last one is a sign for a Diner and is called DNR which only made me think of "Do Not Resuscitate" and who the heck wants to eat after seeing that welcome sign? LOL

 

 

Well it was an eventful day and I hope you dig the photos friends...how about some poetry here goes....(thinking good thoughts for you doll, doll, doll)

 

  Epitaph For A Romantic Woman

 

Everything is going pretty good.

I'm not feeling so lost and paniced about my "issues" I talked about in earlier posts. Speaking of which, I'm reading a book right now and I really appreciated this piece from it which touches on a subject that blissofsuede  and I were talking about a few days ago:

This gradually led to the founding of various religions, each according to the insight that its founder had, regard being to the needs of the time and the people and the level of racial understanding and capacity to accept, digets, and assimilate the teachings ofthe Apostles, Messiahs and Prophets who came from time to time for the material, mental, moral, social and economic upliftment of the multitudes.

All religions spring from the best of motives. The leaders of religious thought are as much the product of the time as the conditions they create for the amelioration of the masses among whom they preach. This being the case, it may not be far amiss to say that for the majority of the people, the superb teaching of the enlightened teachers, formed what may be said socio-religions, codes of social and moral precepts so as to make people lives in peace with one anther, rather than in a state of perpetual unrest, and fear of war - war of one against all and all against one.

Although, as he said, all religions spring from the best of motives, it seems to have brought the world more trouble in the long run than it has anything else, unfortunately.

So I don't know if I already said, but last week we went to the Ringling Museum of Art. My new avatar is a picture of a statue figure's face I took. It was the last one I got to take and we were only halfway through the museum. The camera was running out of batteries (forgot to charge it the night before) and so to save power, it would automatically shut off. Well, there was no flash aloud when you took pictures and when I turned the camera back on to take this picture, I forgot to turn the flash off first and my gramma took the camera from me because she didn't want it to happen again and us get thrown out. Lucky that time no one was around to see. But yeah. I LOVED this guy's face. I took a few other pictures of some pieces I liked but my grandparent's computer is too slow to post them right now, so I'll do it when I get home. It was a really neat museum, though.

I just love that sculture... His face is so playful and blissful looking. Peaceful and happy. Lovely. :)

Peace Love & Respect
-Liv-

So Dusty and I hit an art museum today. He really is artsy when he's not surfing.
We stayed there for most of the day, sitting and watching people and staring into the faces of those who have been painted.
I wrote a lot of things-almost a whole journal full.
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Here is a sestiana I wrote. If you don't know what a sestina is, I think you should look it up so that you get this poem a little better. And I love critique and comment-so sock it to me baby!

Book of Art

Sweet, thick, peach necks covered in pearls,
strung together by heavenly voices, "Oh Golden Gate
we beseech You to cultivate our wealth." Pouring yellow fire
into the pupils of cherubim fat
in essence, sickly, demonlike, don't speak,
but wrapping up enemies in true green envy.

Next picture: a picnic scene to envy.
Plates set on bright red tableclothes, plates pearly
white with soap. the little boy speaks
to father, "Throw the baseball past far left gate."
Cookie crumbs and bread crusts to make fat
ants, the explosive sun crisps and tones down its fire.

Coarsely rubbed purple velvet spewing oil fire.
A party has erupted in "Andromeda's Envy,"
Roman vigils of wine and fat
pigs roasted for Athena, Andromeda's wedding pearls
sitll in her hair-still shining with the fearful sweat of escaping Neptune's gate.
Perseus's rescue honoring Mercury to speak.

A scene in which music clangs in speech
tambourines and animal skin drums orange like fire
instruments of bone gated
to the Higher Being. In spite of envy
the chieftan's daughter wears daiseis precious as pearl,
and, starving, the common people stare jealously at her ripe fat flesh.

A basket of fruit glistening. Fat
red apples and grapes-wishing to be wine if only they could speak.
A single blueberry like a pearl
among stones. The flesh of oranges spicy like fire.
The banana envies
their roundess-their perfect shape-the wicker basket a gate-reigning them in.

Modern art's a mystery-a single gate
post-big monochromatic squares fat
from their experience with only one color, envious
of art that has meaning-that speaks.
Yet modern art too holds its fire
Though a good rendition is as rare as an oyster pearl.

The pearly gates of artistry
wood added to the fire of wisdom, fat
indeed, speaks through the paint-"Envy me."
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Also if you don't know who Andromeda, Perseus, Neptune, and Mercury are, I would look up the story. Even if you aren't really into my poem, at least the mythology is interesting.
I love writing-but if I put in everything I wrote here-there would be no room left on the server.