Thursday, July 30, 2009

The summer doldrums

These must be the summer doldrums - that time between the excitement of the beginning of the summer, and the latter part where it's gets much hotter and more humid, and the back-to-school sales are starting up. We've definitely got that going on around here. Even the Thursday lunch bunch was relatively quiet today.

We took a bunch of books to the used book store. It has moved into a new building, and it is enormous. At least there is finally a large parking lot. And the store was very busy. They only took about 2/3 of the books we took, but we'll give those to the library book sale.

This evening we went to a program at the art museum. It was about (according to the Hunter e-mail) "the nocturnes of Frederic Remington and Frank Tenney Johnson. The works of Remington and Johnson are on exhibit at the Hunter Museum of American Art in Night Visions, a small focus exhibit on two paintings by these artists in conjunction with the exhibition Window on the West. Night Visions explores the nocturne as an art form and specific themes articulated in these paintings." It was an interesting program. We are so lucky to have such a special museum in our community.

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