Mass Audubon trail & Addison Gallery

Saturday, April 21, 2018 - Wendy is hosting a retreat at our house today, so I'm "out and about". After morning Bible Study at CTR, I ran some errands and worked out at the MAC rowing machine (266 calories in 20 minutes). Shower-shave-and-shine, and then Headed West (hey, technically the Transfer Station is west of the Heath Club). After that I went west only one exit to the Massachusetts Audubon Society property. Although it is just south of 128, it is still technically in Wenham, and I have been wanting to hike this property for a few years now:

It took me less than 18 minutes to hike the 0.72 miles:

It was a beautiful day to be out in the woods:

and I was the ONLY ONE when I got there, and when I left!

I headed down 128, got gas at Route 1, and then up to Andover.

I could have done a more-direct route, but I like staying on Interstates (95 and 93) when I can.

I was last up at The Addison Gallery of American Art (at Phillips Academy Andover, Andover, MA)

with Wendy in December 2014. Once again I was able to see beautiful paintings:
Frederic Church - Mount Katahdin, c. 1856:


Albert Bierstadt - The Coming Storm, 1869:


Albert Bierstadt - The Snow Mountain, c. 1863-68


Winslow Homer - Eight Bells, 1886:


Childe Hassam - Early Morning on the Avenue in May 1917, 1917:
I REALLY LIKE Childe Hassam's "Flag Paintings", and I made a Google Map of their locations.click here

Winslow Homer - Country School, 1873


Worthington Whittredge - Home by the Sea, 1872:


Jackson Pollock - Phosphorescence, 1947:


I then headed over to Ellie's in Ipswich to drop off some stuff and pick up some food. This is the Ipswich River down the path behind her condo:



I got home at 4, and we headed out at 5:30 to The AMC Four Thousand Footer Club 2018 Annual Meeting, Awards, and Dinner in Exeter, NH:


It was a lot of FUN, and the certificate I got for climbing all 67 4000-footers in New England:

goes very nicely with the one I got last year for doing the 48 4000-footers in New Hampshire:

Hey, maybe this part should have been over on dixonheadingnorth.blogspot.com

Thank you God for a GREAT Adventure DAY!

For my listening pleasure, I have been doing Shuffle Songs on my iPod. 17,869 songs!

Day 3: 3-day trip to Cleveland Museum of Art

Monday, April 9, 2018 - Um, just drove home today - no stops. 532 miles, home by 6 for a nice dinner:


No photos, no news - just a blog entry to finish the trip. Thanks for coming along!

Thank you God for another GREAT Adventure with my Wonderful Wife!

(Hey, we did have lunch at Five Guys in Newburgh, NY. That kind-of-counts as an "Adventure" [well, maybe more of a "treat" than an "adventure"].)

For my listening pleasure, I have been doing Shuffle Songs on my iPod. 17,869 songs:

Right now, I LOVE "Shuffle Songs"!! Whereas listening to an entire album of live Van Halen, or Acoustic Guitar, or live Bruce, or Miles Davis jazz or 1965 No. 1 Hits might be a bit too much (especially with Wendy, who doesn't like "messy jazz"), one-cut-at-a-time is JUST PERFECT.

and also Wendy read more of my book out loud:

Day 2: 3-day trip to Cleveland Museum of Art

Sunday, April 8, 2018 - Relatively short travel day today - 353 miles versus 518 miles yesterday:


With a little research I found St. Anne's Anglican Church in Madison, Ohio, with its 10 AM Service! We got there right before the service started:


And had nice chats with Pastor Kelly Irish both before and after the Service.

We got down to The Cleveland Museum of Art a little after 1, in plenty of time for our 2 PM tickets to the exhibition:



I LOVE the central courtyard at The Museum:

All the families come out to play at the museum on Sundays, and there was even a gondola for selfies!


I took photos of 28 pictures in the exhibition - my 5 favorite are:

Canaletto - The Procession on the Feast Day of Saint Roch, about 1735, National Gallery, London:

Michele Marieschi - Doge Pietro Grimani Carried into Piazza San Marco after His Election, about 1741, Galerie G. Sarti, Paris:

Canaletto - The Bucintoro at the Molo on Ascension Day, about 1745, Philadelphia Museum of Art:

Francesco Guardi - The Giovedi Grasso Festival in the Piazzetta, about 1775, Musee du Louvre, Paris:

Francesco Guardi - The Meeting of Pope Pius VI and Doge Paolo Renier at San Giorgio in Alga, 1782, Private collection:

As always, museum exhibition spaces are quite lovely and gracious:



Elsewhere in The Museum, it was WONDERFUL seeing two pictures which had not been On Display the previous 2 times I had been here.
Frederic Church - The Monastery at San Pedro (Our Lady of the Snows), 1879:

John Frederick Kensett - An October Day in the White Mountains, 1854:


As always, it is GREAT catching up with an old friend:
Albert Bierstadt, Yosemite Valley, 1866


Then a little over 2 1/2 hours to get east to Brookville, PA. Nice dinner at the Court House Grill & Pub, then bed at the Super 8.Thank you God for another GREAT Adventure DAY with my Wonderful Wife!

For my listening pleasure, I have been doing Shuffle Songs on my iPod. 17,869 songs:

Right now, I LOVE "Shuffle Songs"!! Whereas listening to an entire album of live Van Halen, or Acoustic Guitar, or live Bruce, or Miles Davis jazz or 1965 No. 1 Hits might be a bit too much (especially with Wendy, who doesn't like "messy jazz"), one-cut-at-a-time is JUST PERFECT.

and also Wendy read more of my book out loud:

Day 1: 3-day trip to Cleveland Museum of Art

Saturday, April 7, 2018 - This past winter I became aware of a DYNAMITE exhibit that was "touring": Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe

The premise is to pull together works that showed historical events in the 1700's; actually, it is a WONDERFUL excuse to pull together works by Canaletto, Francesco Guardi, Luca Carlevarijs, Bernardo Bellotto, Antonio Joli, Michele Marieschi, Giovanni Paolo Panini, and Hubert Robert. The paintings come from collections ALL OVER THE WORLD: Alte Pinakothek (Munich, Germany), Minneapolis Institute of Art, The National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), Musei Civici di Como (Como, Italy), Museo di Capodimonte (Naples, Italy), The Boston Athenaeum (Boston, MA), Musee du Louvre (Paris, France), The Royal Castle (Warsaw, Poland), Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, England), National Gallery (London, England), Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA), J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA), Chrysler Museum (Norfolk, VA), Gemaldegalerie (Berlin, Germany), National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin, Ireland), Musee Carnavalet (Paris, France), The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX) and private collections.

After being at the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA) from May through July 2017, and then the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN) from September through December 2017, the exhibition has its final stop at The Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH) from February through May 2018:


I asked Wendy, and she said YES, so I bought tickets and started planning:

The Museum tickets were for 2 PM Sunday, April 8, so Saturday we would go out I-90 through New York State, spending the night in Hamburg, NY. Sunday we would go to St. Anne's Anglican Church (Madison, OH), then Cleveland, and spend the night in Brookville, PA; and Monday just head on home (almost all museums are closed on Mondays).

We left home about 7:30 AM, and were at the Albany Institute of History & Art at 11:

I had visited here only 10 weeks ago (at the end of January), and I knew I wanted to get Wendy out here! They have two excellent exhibitions:

plus an exhibition that the ladies in my household love:


"45th Station: Shono", woodblock print, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA:

To quote the Display Info Card: The image is considered the masterpiece of Hiroshige' Hoeido version of the Fifty-three Stations on the Tokaido Road.

The Hudson River School exhibition was as beautiful as I remembered it:

This time I will show you the five beauties by Homer Dodge Martin:
Bash Bish Falls, 1859

View on Lake George, c. 1859

Hudson River Waterfall, c. 1860

Storm King on the Hudson, 1862

Landscape with Boat, c. 1860-1870


We had a nice lunch in their cafe, then headed down the road.

Because we weren't "Museumed Out" just yet, we stopped at The Arkell Museum in Canajoharie, NY:


I had visited Arkell only once before, in November 2014, and I remember them having a wonderful Winslow Homer collection. Highlights today include:

Winslow Homer, On the Beach, c. 1869


Childe Hassam, Provincetown, 1900


Albert Bierstadt, El Capitan, ca. 1872-74


Then 3 1/2 hours down the road, and we got to Letchworth State Park, which contains the "Grand Canyon of the East". I loved my stop here at the end of my cross-country trip last August, and I'm really glad I got to show Wendy.





Then a little over an hour to get up to Hamburg, NY. Nice dinner at The Waterstone Grill, then bed at the Super 8.Thank you God for a GREAT Adventure DAY with my Wonderful Wife!

For my listening pleasure, I have been doing Shuffle Songs on my iPod. 17,869 songs means that I can certainly "shuffle off to Buffalo"!! and also Wendy read my book out loud: