On the second-to-last-day of 2018, we went to the Seattle Art Museum and looked at “Peacock in the Dessert“, five centuries of royal art from India. Which seemed fitting since we’re in Seattle because my brother & sister-in-law & niece are in India.
My current blog banner is food at some kind of royal game playing celebration, where the people are wearing yellow to increase enjoyment.
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- Elephant headgear
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- Video of a modern wedding – Dave said he hadn’t seen any elephants dressed like this so far, but lots of painted cows
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- Detail of the wedding of Rama & Sita
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- Caption
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- Boys fighting for a drum – it struck me how, because they were royal, this was documented and made into history, when it’s just boys fighting for a drum
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- Caption for the boys wrestling for the drum
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- I was also impressed with how important textiles were at that time in India
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- Women gossiping among what the caption called “masterfully painted trees”
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- After India I went to look at more modern stuff and wandered into a gallery titled New Topographics, photographers making pictures of human-altered landscapes. Stephen Shore, Lewis Baltz, Ed Ruscha, Robert Adams, and this is Howard Kottler
We had lunch at a brew pub, then rode the bus back to Dave & Jen’s.
For entertainment, we went to see The Favourite at an art house, SIFF Egyptian. We had a little difficulty navigating and finding parking, but still were in our seats for the start of the previews. I liked the film’s depiction of 18th century court intrigue, although it did get a little arty at times.
On the last day of 2018, I took the dog for a longish walk and got a coffee at Starbucks. After I got back to the house, it got a lot foggier. We went for another walk in the fog, Mark and I this time, rather than the dog and I, and tried out another coffee place that was ultimately hipster, single source beans and lots of LP records displayed on the wall. We went by the cupcake place on the way home and picked up a red velvet cupcake and a triple chocolate cupcake.
I went grocery shopping by car and bought the ingredients for a New Year’s Eve cheeseboard, and for black eyed peas and greens and ham for New Year’s Day.
Fennel salami, baguette slices, Jarlsberg, marinated feta & olives, chipotle cheese (from WI), Kirkland sharp white cheddar, honey crisp apple slices, dates & apricots, butterfly-shaped butter crackers and dried cranberry & nut crisps, soft goat cheese, and a few cherry tomatoes scattered randomly about
The cheeseboard wasn’t the right food for Mark & Anna, so we went and got a pizza, too. New York style.
Even though the fog lifted we wimped out and didn’t go outdoors to see the fireworks. Instead we live-streamed local channel 5 on Jen’s big iMac. The 10 minute display (sponsored by T-Mobile, hence the magenta lighting on the needle) had an all-women soundtrack that started with Heart, included the hit song from The Greatest Showman, Lady Gaga, and ended with ‘Reatha.
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On the first day of 2019, I took the dog for essentially the same walk as the day before, but I tried to stick to streets instead of the paths through the woods. Initially a good idea but it meant the walk home was all uphill, a plus 308-foot rise, Google said. We found an abandoned teddy. I sat him up in the hope that whoever dropped him would find him again.
