Saturday, August 8, 2009

First week of August 2009

On Monday Barbara had a doctor’s appointment in Morristown so we made a day of it, silly to drive almost 2 hours just to go to the doctor. Barbara found a museum in Morristown we had not been to (and was open on a Monday) called Acorn Hall Museum (http://acronhall.org). It is a house in Morristown that was built in the 1800’s and occupied up until 1971 and has all the original furniture and some original wall coverings. Then it was off to the doctor’s office and after that we met our son for dinner and had a very nice day out. During the week we went to the lake a couple of times, on Friday we even went to the lake for a picnic lunch and a swim. Finally on Saturday we went to Peace Valley Park in Bucks county PA (http://www.buckscounty.org/government/departments/ParksandRec/Parks/PeaceValley.aspx) for a picnic lunch. We sat at a picnic table on the shore of Lake Galena and watched as the kayaks, paddle and sail boats went by. After lunch we went to Fonthall Museum (http://www.tiles.org/pages/mptw/mercer.htm#fonthill) for what they called a summer time meander thru the museum. Instead of having a tour guide take you through the museum you get to go through the museum on your own and spend as much time as you like in each room. The whole house was built with hand poured concrete and has tiles that Henry Mercer either made at his tile works or collected in his travels around the world embedded in the walls ceiling and columns. We spent a little over an hour meandering and at the end went to the kitchen and had an ice pop. It was a very interesting place to visit but the hall ways between the rooms where narrow and the stairways where everywhere, I would not want to live there.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Grounds for Sculpture

Barbara and I had planned on going to Philadelphia to the art museum on the Bank of America, Museums on Us program. In short if you have a Bank of America credit card you can get into hundreds of museums all over the country for free on the first weekend of the month. Just do a search on Museums on Us to get all the details. Instead we went to the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ (http://www.groundsforsculpture.org/) and got in for free there instead. We had gotten a little of a late start so we got there around 11 AM and as I was parking the car Barbara saw a peahen with two little chicks in the grass by one of the sculptures. So I got out my camera and got as close as I could and took some pictures. Then after getting a map at the visitor center we went to lunch at the Peacock Café. We had a lovely lunch sitting among the sculptures. After lunch we walked around you can not go more then a few yards without seeing a new sculpture. You also have to look in among the trees and bushes; you never know where they have hidden some of the sculptures. If you look carefully at some of my pictures you might see things, or a person, that do not belong. Have fun looking at the pictures, we had fun walking around for the afternoon (and I always love to take pictures).