Spring Break--Pix of Pix!

Spring Break was glorious--left the 4 ft. high snow drift in my back yard and drove south to Charlotte, NC, where I stayed overnight at my nephew's house. Next morning he put me on the early train to NYC. I arrived at there 8:30 p.m. in time for a big city supper of mussels in garlic sauce cooked  my friend Abigail. One of life's most refined blessings is friends who are adventurous cooks.
         The next day we went to the Frick Museum, which has a lot of pretty art. If you like pretty pix, they have lots. If you like your art edgier, go to the Whitney or the Modern Art.

         Probably Andrew Wyeth's most famous
painting, Christina's World  his depiction of his neighbor marooned in a field. "Christina" had handicapped and the painting brilliantly puts the viewer in that place. For most of us, climbing the hill would be effortless. It is impossible, mile high mountain for Christina, who won't find--in her condition much solace in the house if she does get there. For her, it will be the same "ole."
        I particularly enjoyed seeing the painting because there is far more contrast between the pink of Christina's dress in the original than in any of the printed versions I have seen.
   Art provides a prospective on the world that a viewer can almost nowhere else.