3 Days in February 2023 - Day 2

Friday, February 24, 2023 - Yesterday Wendy started a 5-day retreat - which gives me a GREAT opportunity for a ROAD TRIP:

1,330 miles in 3 days - 11 museums!

Today (Day 2) I will be hitting 5 museums and covering 340 miles:

It is nice to see my Quality Inn in daylight:

So - I have a New Hobby. I'm collecting Post Offices!

For a few years now, I have enjoyed taking a picture of the Post Office as I go through a town, whether UP NORTH or OUT WEST. My vision is that these buildings work two ways - spreading and connectiong "locally-horiztontallY", and also "going vertical", and spreading and connecting with other individuals and communities across this nation. The local Post Office forms a nucleus of a community, and it is warming to see a Post Office in a community, but it is TRAGIC to see little towns without Post Offices.

I took pictures of 37 Post Offices today, starting with Calcium, NY 13616:

and ending the day with Owego, NY 13827:

Today's fun Before-and-After pictures:

I hit the road at 7:45, and made my way through some pretty stark countryside:

I reached my first museum at 10:50 - Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY:

It's wonderful seeing Jackson Pollock - "Number 2, 1949", 1949 oil:

I love seeing a close-up, reminding me of the Hubble telescope pictures of galaxies-in-a-small-square:

Frederic Edwin Church - "Sunset", 1856 oil:

Georgia O'Keeffe - "Pelvis with Pedernal", 1943 oil:

My walk around The Museum:

From there, it was over to "Jersey Mike's Subs" in Syracuse (Ellie gave me a gift certificate for my birthday!):

Just down the road is the Everson Museum of Art - cool space, but only 1 piece of art:

Henry Moore - "Two Piece Reclining Figure no 3", 1961 bronze

My walk around the Everson:

15 minutes later I was at the Syracuse University Art Museum:

William Louis Sonntag, Sr. - "View from West Point", c. 1860s oil:

Helen Frankenthaler - "Untitled", 1979 acrylic:

My walk around Syracuse:

One hour down the road, and I was at the Herbert f. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY:

The HIGHLIGHT is their wall of "19th-Century Art - Salon style":

John Kensett - "The Rocks at Newport, Rhode Island", 1862 oil:

John Kensett - "View of Triphammer Falls, Uthaca, NY", n.d. oil:

Homer Dodge Martin - "The Waterfalls", 1861 oil:

Albert Bierstadt - "Swiss Mountain Scene", 1859 oil:

William Bradford - "Waiting for the Thaw (Arctic Whaling Scene)", 1877 oil:

After some cool views inside-and-outside, it was time to head down the road:

Walking around The Museum at Cornell:

I reached the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, NY at 4:30 - they close at 5:

Thomas Cole - "Autumn in the Catskills", 1827 oil:

William Louis Sonntag - "Landscape with Fishermen", c. 1860 oil:

Albert Bierstadt - "Approaching Storm", 1854 oil:

Georg Anton Rasmussen - "Seascape with Fjord", 1891 oil:

Having fun at The Arnot:

I left there at 4:45, heading southeast to my EconoLodge in Clarks Summit, PA (just outside of Scranton). A GREAT sunset as I pulled into Owego, NY for my final Post Office of the day:

I checked-in to the EconoLodge in Clarks Summit, PA, with my pizza. The end of an Avengers movie, and the 1st episode of "The Madalorian" put a prefect end to a great day:

Thank You God for this GREAT Adventure/Art Day - 340 miles in 12 hours!!

Music for today - I think, for this trip, I will listen to the physical cds that I have - an interesting bunch of discs I have accumulated over the years:

starting the day with jazz - Joey Calderazzo - Secrets, 1994 4th solo album

Jackson Browne - World in Motion, 1989 9th album

Jimmy Buffett - Fruitcakes, 1994 18th album

Brandi Carlile - Live From Neumo's, 2006 live ep

Counting Crows - August and Everything After (deluxe) live cd, 2007 live album (2nd cd in Deluxe package = 1994 concerts)

Jackson Browne - I'm Alive, 1993

The Allman Brothers Band - Eat A Peach 1972 double album:

Big Head Todd and The Monsters - Another Mayberry, 1989 debut album

I got tired of swapping discs as it was getting dark, so I listened to 2 alnums on my iPod:

The Monkees - The Monkees Greatest Hits, 1976

Van Morrison - Moondance, 1970 3rd album

WOW - WHAT A GREAT ALBUM!

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