Being an art dunce I would have profited from the docent tour, and I tagged along a bit, but I was kinda impatient. I looked a each picture for a while, including the ones that seemed to be a monochrome. They did not speak to me. Many others did. Seeing them in person is certainly MUCH better than a print or book or computer screen. Especially the big ones. I recognized many of the names of the artists having inputted all the data for all them art prints we have in the library.
I looked at other parts of the museum, too. There's a lot of interesting stuff, but you need a bit of preparation to appreciate it. Probably should take it all in in small chunks!
The one thing I remember most of all was the Modigliani painting Young Servant Girl, and the docent explaining why the eyes are blank, which I never noticed before.
Looking out the window at the stairs I noticed there was construction going on behind the museum. Is that the zoo? It is! That is going to be the new zoo employee parking structure.
There were a whole bunch of hummingbird feeders, too, but no hummingbirds.
Afterwards I should have gone up in the California Tower, but I shall leave that for another day.
OF COURSE there was geocaching involved! A new cache was published last night, I went for it this morning, and did not find it. Darn, I would have been first! Then I drove to Missing Valley and found two caches I couldn't get yesterday. And finally, I scooted over to Balboa Park. I did a puzzle cache that involved listening to a podcast tour of Balboa Park, noting various numbers along the way, and assembling those numbers into coordinates at the end. And then I couldn't find the cache. Well, eventually I did, but it took twenty minutes and a change of perspective to find the little rascal. But I felt pretty good because the last cacher, someone with over 13,000 finds, didn't find it at all.
There was another puzzle cache I tried, but I didn't get that one. But I did find an Angry Shark LEGO Man!
Angry Shark LEGO Man is attached to a Hello Kitty LEGO (or knockoff) car I found at work. Maybe that is why he is angry?
I did the caches before I went to the art museum as it did not open until noon. So I spent about two hours there, then I headed to El Cajon to take another look at that new cache that Mr. Wonderful did not find this morning. Oh, and it had been found three times after I failed. Well, I spotted it THIS time in just a few minutes. Maybe it helped to have the sun out.
I guess that is all, tomorrow is a work day!
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