Day Twenty-Four: Columbia, MO - The Saint Louis Art Museum - Ladue, MO - Springfield, OH

The Saint Louis Art Museum is a great museum, with glorious architecture and an encompassing collection


in addition to paintings by Cole, Cropsey, Durand, Kensett, Winslow Homer, van Gogh, Pollock (1950), two by Bierstadt, a bronze by Remington, and sculptures ("Striding Artemis" marble, late 1st century BC-AD 1st century; and "Despair" by Rodin), there are 3 "pieces of note":

a beautiful leaded glass window: by John La Farge, "Hollyhocks, window from the Frederick Lothrop Ames House, Boston, Massachusetts", 1882


"Charing Cross Bridge", 1903, by Claude Monet


and the second-of-three "Water Lilies", c.1915-26, by Claude Monet


after the Art Museum, I backtracked to Ladue, which is where Wendy grew up, where I got married, and where Wendy's parents lived for a long long time.

A quick shot of 9610 Ladue, where Wendy grew up


St. Peter's Episcopal Church, where we got married


Mary Institute, where Wendy spent "her formative years"


and 911 S Warson, where Deede and Crunnie lived after selling 9610


and, of course, there is The Arch leaving St. Louis


I hate crossing time zones "backwards" - I'm driving along, and suddenly I lose an hour!

Apology: the Super 8 I stayed in over the weekend did not have any internet connection, so these postings have gotten postponed/bunched up

Saturday, Oct. 5
Super 8, Columbia, MO
2 hours -- Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
1/2 hour -- Ladue, MO
6 hours -- Super 8, 2 W Leffel Lane, Springfield, OH

here is today's playlist:

Jurgen Liias - his teaching at last week's Thursday Morning Mens Breakfast


Yes - 90125


2013 Grammy Nominees


    from "We Take Care Of Our", Bruce Springsteen:
        "I been looking for the map that leads me home"

Pearl Jam - Ten


America - America (1st album)


    40 years ago I was going coast-to-coast in our Pinto - I was "going through the desert on a horse with no name"

    It's raining, so the windows are up, so its ok to play this acoustic stuff

Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman


and because of the lightning:
60s Ultimate Collection, Vol. 2: The History of Rock


which contains Lou Christie - "Lightnin' Strikes", which was #1 in the US for one week in February 1966

Billy Joel - 52nd Street


Frank Sinatra - '57 In Concert


25 Beach Music Classics