New Year's Getty and Broad Visits with Tom

Hey...seeing how this is our blog to share experiences and wonder and beauty I think we should expand the parameters and include things like fun trips and museum visits.   We don't need to limit our posts to just experiences with nature.  Particularly when they include cherished relatives and friends.  Anything that brings joy is now officially on the table!

So here's a late entry from last month when I visited Tom and Sandra down in LA. The weather was pretty spotty for normally hot and sunny LA. The bouts of rain and cold and fog and mist were especially surreal and amazing. And all the more memorable when the sun finally popped out again.

The art on display at the Broad and the Getty was above and beyond. The art scene in LA is thriving and growing exponentially. In a word - PHENOMENAL!!! I completely forgot how much I love LA and can't wait to visit again...and again...and again. These were just a few of our favorites:

Cezanne

Van Gogh

Jean Baptiste Camille Corot

Simon Alexandre-Clement Denis

The Getty Shrouded in Mist

Yayoi Kusama "Infinity Room"

Jeff Koons

 Cy Twombly (and Tom)

Robert Therrien (and Tom...again...lol)

Kara Walker

Mark Bradford

Bye Bye!

CLOUDS...CLOUDS...GLORIOUS CLOUDS

Hmmmm...do we need to rename this blog "Clouds Catharsis"??? Lol....

The incessant rains finally stopped yesterday afternoon but some of the amazing, incredibly gorgeous clouds hung around a bit.  I was so glad they did! They created quite a spectacle out over the Pacific which I got to view from my cozy, warm little studio perched up on the hill....#SoBlessed!

I hope you can enjoy at least some of the inexplicable joy I receive from these stunning works of art!  They make me feel the limitless potential that exists in us all...and they make me feel that there is some design, as rough as it may be, to all of this.  TAG! YOU'RE IT! START POSTING DEAR SISTER - THE PRESSURE IS ON - COME JOIN YOUR LITTLE BROTHER!  HAHAHAHA....

Valentine's Day 2017

A VALENTINE'S DAY TALE

 Matriarch receives heart shaped box of See's chocolates.

Valentine's Day gift from  Prodigal Son out West.


Photo courtesy of Cha Cha Phyllis, Jr. 

And yes, that is a Panda on the cover of the box.

Because Pandas are ADORABLE.

Yum.


The End.

Little Bro Returns...Will Big Sis Follow?

After a year's long sabbatical from posting, I have reached peak levels of boredom and am determined to dust off and restart our fabulous, famous and simply fucking fantastic blog!  I can no longer spend time reading and staying abreast of the news... everytime I try to I end up feeling extremely ill, like I landed in a story by Kafka or a Fellini film.  And we are experiencing a new season out here in beautiful Northern California. I like to call it the Extended Monsoon Season and it's doing a great job of keeping everyone indoors for lengthy periods of time with nothing to do ...except wait for the rain to stop.

So I was trying to find ways to fill the void when I accidentally stumbled on our old blog and realized how much I missed sharing our adventures.  I hope you'll join me in resurrecting the old girl!  It's not only a fantastic way to stay in touch but the perfect way to share precious moments and our wonderful experiences cavorting in nature. I just hope and pray I don't get washed out to sea with all this torrential rain and flooding so I'll have more experiences to share with you.  I know you're a heathen...errr I mean you're not at all religious but pray for your poor ark-bereft brother nonetheless.

As you well know I am completely obsessed with clouds and all that happens in the vast open spaces above us so here are a few snaps of this past week's views out over the Pacific Ocean taken from my apartment window:

6:15AM - Snow Moon Still Up

Late Afternoon Sky

Sunset!!!

Oops! That's a painting from the Getty Museum