In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
TIME: 4:38 PM
PLACE: Bicentennial Park
SUBJECT: Sign and fountain
I saw fog rising from the melting snow on my way home from work.
I stopped at the park and took a couple of pictures.
I didn’t really capture what I wanted…but these photos will do.
SUBJECT: Sculpture
I can’t wait until the trees are full of green leaves again.
Marge: There must be something we can do to encourage Lisa's gift. An art class. Ballet lessons. They have fun things to do at the museum on Saturday.
Homer: Whoa, whoa, Marge. I'm not spending my Saturdays at a museum. Unless... museums don't have foosball do they?
TIME: This afternoon
PLACE: Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL
SUBJECT: The kids, HH and stuff we saw
StellaDella weaving.
Chairs in the atrium that I would love to own.
DramaQueen by “Shroud for Crypt 33 - Marilyn Monroe 2007” quilt by Sun Smith-Foret.
HandsomeHusband and SD reflected.
A statue outside. Sadly, I did not get the name of this statue, nor the sculpture at the beginning of my post and could not find them on the cedarhusrt.org website.
Vampire: [about Jack Skellington, who is missing] I peeked behind the Cyclops' eye - I did! - But he wasn't there.
The Nightmare Before Christmas. Writ. Tim Burton. 1993. Touchstone Pictures
TIME: 10:28 AM
PLACE: South Lawn, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
SUBJECT: StellaDella & MonkeyBoy in Vito Acconci’s “Face of the Earth #3” 1988
I had my cast/splint removed this morning and am now in a brace for the next 4-6 weeks. Physical therapy, 2-3 times a week, has also been prescribed. After my appointment, as we were driving to Costco, I impulsively decided to stop for a quick visit to Laumeier Sculpture Park. We (SD, MB & I) had never been before and it was a gorgeous day to go. We were not there for long and didn’t see everything, but they really enjoyed the sculptures we did get to see.
TIME: 10:24 AM
PLACE: Way Field, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
SUBJECT: Alexander Liberman, The Way, 1972-80
Isn’t that ginormous? It’s made from eighteen salvaged steel oil tanks. Can you see MB wearing the green t-shirt and SD standing by him under the middle of the sculpture? They want to go back.
“Xander: Wait. Hansel and Gretel? Bread crumbs, ovens, gingerbread house?
Giles: Of course. It makes sense now.
Buffy: Yeah, it's all falling into place. Of course that place is nowhere near this place.”
"Gingerbread." *Buffy the Vampire Slayer.* Perf. Nicholas Brendon, Anthony Head, and Sarah Michelle Gellar. 12 Jan. 1999. Television.
TIME: 3:49 PM
PLACE: Downtown
SUBJECT: Sand Gingerbread House
As part of our city’s annual gingerbread Christmas festivities, several local businesses and our Main Street group sponsored the sculpting of this sand gingerbread house on our public square for the Christmas season. The sand sculptor started on Wednesday morning and was finished by this afternoon. During the month of December, our city also has an annual gingerbread house building contest (one of these years I’d like to enter), a 5K run and a downtown gingerbread cookie walk. Santa arrives next week Friday in the annual Santa Claus parade. Kids will be able to visit him in his cottage right next to the ginger-sand house.
“Turtle Goddess
she of the hard shell
soft underneath
awaits enormously
in a dark grotto
the young Heroes....”
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Film."
TIME: 7:34 PM
PLACE: Turtle playground in Forest Park
SUBJECT: Soft shelled turtle sculpture
We have a friend visiting this weekend. Dana from “Dana Does Digital” arrived last night and is staying with us until Saturday. Unfortunately for Dana, my children were comfortable enough with her to feel that they did not have to be on their best behavior. They acted normally and whined and bickered amongst themselves as if they had known her all their lives. We try to make sure that when you’re here, you’re family, and get to see us warts and all at Casa Sujomi. Today, she suffered through a day of sight seeing with me and the kids. Our grand tour included a trip up in the Arch, a stop at the Old Courthouse, eating lunch at the Lafayette Fire Co. No. 1, shopping for a bit and then heading back to the abode for a short rest. When HH finished work, we then went back to St. Louis for some tasty sushi and Ted Drewes Frozen Custard on Old Route 66 for some dessert. On our way to Ted Drewes, HH drove a meandering scenic route to make sure that Dana had plenty of photo ops while she was here. One of the places we stopped at was this Turtle playground in Forest Park.
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -
Only this, and nothing more.' "
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. writer, poet & literary critic. The Raven, (L. 1-6),
first published in 1845
TIME: 1:31 PM
PLACE: Public Library (Downtown)
SUBJECT: "Raven" - by Dale Rogers, Massachusetts & MonkeyBoy
My kids, especially DramaQueen, love to read. Our library has a summer reading program each summer. We went today, but found out that the program does not start until next week. That's ok...we usually go to the library on a weekly basis during the summer months. So we will definitely return next week to sign them up.
A new sculpture was recently installed in front of the library in conjunction with our city's "Sculpture in the City" program. A local law firm was the sponsor of this particular piece. Of course I had my camera with me. MonkeyBoy gladly posed with it for me.
