- View through partially stained glass windows, off the ridge of Manhattan, over the Hudson River, to part of New Jersey's Palisades, (preserved with great foresight by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.)
- One of the galleries in particular—rectilinear, stone, spare but redolent with natural texture—which could be my whole living space. Summer-style kitchen in separate bungalow accessible via short teak boardwalk through the trees.
- Espaliered pear tree
- Sweetheart (?) brooch—tangled gold, like bine stems (“The tangled bine-stems scored the sky/Like strings of broken lyres”) littered with tiny, irregular gems.
- Father smacking girl upside the head when she—they all, actually, didn't obey the docent quickly enough.
This is my bit of a blog. Rambling words about rambling days. No focus and nothing ambitious. I seem to write most about local color, nature, and animals, and there is an incomplete chunk about my road trips of 2011.
Saturday, July 21, 2007
The Cloisters
The Cloisters museum of the Medieval art, in Washington Heights, New York City (Manhattan). Ran through the museum like children new to a big house. I'm commonly attracted more to the buildings of art museums than to their contents. Highlights included:
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