I will not try to cover what went on last month suffice it to say we kept ourselves busy and all the gardens are planted and growing (including 4 tomatoe plants and four small rows of green beans).
On Thursday of this week Barbara and I went to The Barnes Foundation (http://www.barnesfoundation.org/). It is a small art museum started by Dr. Albert C. Barnes in 1912. For more information on Dr. Barnes you can go to the web site above, very interesting (read the time line). Inside the museum every inch of wall space is covered with paintings or has a case with small sculptors in them. Also many old hinges, door latches, weathervanes and such are hung on the walls in and around the paintings. The building was built exclusively for Dr. Barnes’s art collection. He collected 181 Pierre-Auguste Renoir paintings along with Henri Matisse and many others. He collected everything from 17th and 18th century religious art works all the way through the impressionists into early Modern Art by Pablo Picasso. If you are ever in the Philadelphia area it is worth a call to this place to get a reservation to see it. Because of the area it is in and the limited parking available you need to get a reservation, which is the only drawback. After walking through all the galleries we went for a short walk in the Arboretum through the rose and perennial gardens. We made it down to the pond just outside of the Tea House (they do not server tea there). Then it started to rain lightly so we thought it best to head for home. Please take a look at the pictures I took in the arboretum/gardens.
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