Reading and Roaming
This week we’ve had some new adventures including a tour of a small historic museum, a jaunt over to Roosevelt Island, time in Central Park with our younger granddaughter, and even a film. All food for body and mind as some days we’ve racked up 20,000+ steps! HOUSE MUSEUM Mount Vernon Museum and Garden is …
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HOLIDAY IN NEW YORK We’re back in the Big Apple and for us Floridians (guess we’ve become that), it’s cold. But so far no snow predicted, only some warm rain over the next few days. We’re eating at old and new restaurants and while the lure of the West Village is strong, we are working …
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WAITING OUT IRMA We led a schizophrenic existence the past few days enjoying lovely sunny fall days in Manhattan while mentally anxious about Hurricane Irma’s path and the fate of our Florida home. We were some of the fortunate ones; by the time Irma reached us, she had lessened in intensity and the wind direction …
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WHITNEY BIENNIAL. The Whitney Biennial brings together works of art by a wide variety of artists (60+ this year, I believe), many of them young. Most of the art is recent or new works and includes paintings, sculpture, and video. Overall the art is strange, provocative, disturbing, and sometimes even realistic. We did just one …
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