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Not so far up north, but Northampton, Massachusetts and environs sure got a lot of snow.
Kelly & I stopped in town on the way home from Springfield (I took the bus there) and did some browsing and food/candy shopping. And we stopped at the wonderful R. Michelson Gallery , which has lots of children's book illustrative art, including that of my favorite artists Barry Moser. I own four illustrations by Moser from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass-two of them dodos. He's a wonderful illustrator who in addition the two Carroll books, has also illustrated Frankenstein, Moby Dick, and The Wizard of Oz--Jane Yolen, his friend and neighbor is one of the Queens and Nancy Reagan is The Wicked Witch of the West.
Being essentially snowed in, we watched lots of movies--most of which I mentioned over the weekend (I have one more to add: Bowfinger a very funny Hollywood comedy with Steve Martin as a n'ar do well would be producer who decides to make a movie with an action movie star (Eddie Murphy in two roles)without the star knowing it. Brilliant scheme that almost works. I enjoyed this. It's not something that I would have seen in the theater so I'm glad Kelly persuaded me to watch it.
Saturday night we drove over to visit Holly and Theo Black and to meet Holly's new cat, a hairless sphinx. Lily is very very hot! (her temperature is a few degrees higher than normal because of the lack of fur). She's friendly and sweet and yes, very weird looking, as you can see here and here . In between petting the animals, we also brainstormed the title of the Tachyon book and came up with some interesting variations which I sent to me editor....(as I mentioned in the comments of the blog post where I mentioned my title search, none of them were chosen either).
The snow stopped on Saturday but started again very early Sunday morning and became blizzard strength by the time we left for Springfield. Scary driving but we made it (and K&G made it home safely). I took an earlier bus that was running late, so got home about the time I was supposed to. Driving south it stopped snowing and by the time I got to NYC it was clear.
I'm hoping to get back up there in the spring or summer so that I can visit the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art(funded by children's artist Carle) and antiquing.
Kelly & I stopped in town on the way home from Springfield (I took the bus there) and did some browsing and food/candy shopping. And we stopped at the wonderful R. Michelson Gallery , which has lots of children's book illustrative art, including that of my favorite artists Barry Moser. I own four illustrations by Moser from Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass-two of them dodos. He's a wonderful illustrator who in addition the two Carroll books, has also illustrated Frankenstein, Moby Dick, and The Wizard of Oz--Jane Yolen, his friend and neighbor is one of the Queens and Nancy Reagan is The Wicked Witch of the West.
Being essentially snowed in, we watched lots of movies--most of which I mentioned over the weekend (I have one more to add: Bowfinger a very funny Hollywood comedy with Steve Martin as a n'ar do well would be producer who decides to make a movie with an action movie star (Eddie Murphy in two roles)without the star knowing it. Brilliant scheme that almost works. I enjoyed this. It's not something that I would have seen in the theater so I'm glad Kelly persuaded me to watch it.
Saturday night we drove over to visit Holly and Theo Black and to meet Holly's new cat, a hairless sphinx. Lily is very very hot! (her temperature is a few degrees higher than normal because of the lack of fur). She's friendly and sweet and yes, very weird looking, as you can see here and here . In between petting the animals, we also brainstormed the title of the Tachyon book and came up with some interesting variations which I sent to me editor....(as I mentioned in the comments of the blog post where I mentioned my title search, none of them were chosen either).
The snow stopped on Saturday but started again very early Sunday morning and became blizzard strength by the time we left for Springfield. Scary driving but we made it (and K&G made it home safely). I took an earlier bus that was running late, so got home about the time I was supposed to. Driving south it stopped snowing and by the time I got to NYC it was clear.
I'm hoping to get back up there in the spring or summer so that I can visit the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art(funded by children's artist Carle) and antiquing.
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Bowfinger's definitely a fun movie. My freshman English teacher made us watch it.
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Why did he make you watch it? Any specific educational reason?
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You know, someone should make that poor cat a coat!
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Did Holly fix you hot toddies?
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Hot tea instead :-)
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Isn't Michelson fab? Did they still have my beloved Baskin Medea exhibit up?
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Oh yes--There was (IIRC) a Medea picture but not a whole exhibit.
But lots of great stuff.
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But you mean you were ten minutes from my house and didn't give me a call?
Jane
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