Frame Job with Fingers* --- Day 6/84

Walk: Opera Plaza Cinema (Citizen Jane and Truman)
Distance: 4 miles

Before with brassy Cheap Pete's frame that drove Ciwt kind of nuts

After with frame that calmly lets the print - not frame-  stand out

Solution Ciwt would probably like better (narrower frame). But the one above was the framer's solution which he liked a lot. Ciwt had already sort of blown his mind by coming up with Frame Job 1 (see yesterday) after he'd given it a bunch of tries, and she didn't want to hurt his feelings.  No big deal anyway.  The main thing is two areas in her home that were bothering her enough to consider spending some outrageous amount on new art are now easy on her eyes for just a few hundred dollars from a frame shop she could walk to...

*If you want to look closely, you can see Ciwt's hands reflected in the glass. 

Frame Job --- Day 6/83

Walk: FRAME
Distance: 3 miles and home yoga

                  Before

After

Excellent Decisions Department: Ciwt seriously considered buying a painting a few weeks ago, but decided instead to reframe a couple of ones she already had.  What a difference!  Aesthetically and economically.

Respite in Pink --- Day 6/82

Walk: Marin Driving Day, Legion of Honor 
Distance: 1 mile, small yoga

Claude Monet, House on the River Zaan at Zaandam, 1871, Oil on Canvas, 18.77" x 29"

     Detail
For a respite Ciwt returned to the current Monet show still at the Legion.  Really nice to just enjoy the exhibition without having to be think of how she might present and talk about it to clients.

This little painting just captures the room and the viewers with its soft, sweet glow.  Even though done quite early in Monet's career (before Impressionism, of which he is considered the father), it is one of the most complex depictions of reflected in his entire body of work.

Hiding --- Day 6/81

Walk: PGCC for Wednesday Bridge
Distance: A few blocks, small home yoga

Cyrano de Bergerac, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Set Design by Kevin Depinet

Sometimes Ciwt wishes she included politics in CIWT.  But, no...

Individual Character Already --- Day 6/80

Walk: Up and Down, Up and Down, U & D the Stairs
Distance: Blocks!  Home Yoga

      Ciwt thinks it is a perfect day for cute animals.  

Succulents Revisited --- Day 6/79

Walk: Monday Errands
Distance: 3.6 miles, Home Yoga

Ciwt may have to re-think her relationship with succulents*.  She was walking behind her cute local library, and look at what she saw.  FLOWERS.  Succulents produce Flowers!?  (Maybe once in her lifetime?)

Also, most of the plants on one of her windiest, most vulnerable decks didn't make it through our winter deluge. So as each one succombed, she took one single, broken succulent (one found just lying on the sidewalk) and placed it into the empty dirt. Now, well...one has become 3-4 in all the pots - in a matter of months.  

*See CIWT 4/148 and 4/180

We Aren't at Carnegie Hall? --- Day 6/78

Walk: Cinema Club (Past Time), Calvary Church Concert (From These Mountains)
Distance: 2.6 miles, small yoga

There's a church down the block from Ciwt that has a remarkable music program.  At today's orchestral world premiere (written and conducted by the church's music director) Ciwt had to keep reminding herself she wasn't at Carnegie Hall.  

O-O-O --- Day 6/77

Walk: Fillmore Street
Distance: 2 Miles, teeny yoga



      
         

It's Official:  Ciwt is officially in love with the officially beautiful Always Dreaming 
the official winner of today's 143rd Kentucky Derby