Pink at Sunset --- Day 8/297

Walk: Hood
Distance: 2 Miles, Small Yoga

White Lamp and French Objects in Pink Sunset 

Speaking Softly --- Day 8/296

Walk: Golden Gate Park Japanese Tea Garden for City Guides Tour
Distance: 3.5 Miles, Yoga

The beauty and serenity of Golden Gate Park's Japanese Tea Garden speaks for itself.  But, like her guide on today's tour, soon Ciwt might be putting in a word herself.  She's been selected to become a San Francisco City Guide, or at least a Guide Trainee for now.  That actual training is coming up in a few weeks and lasts several months, so probably her readers will hear more about it.  Hopefully she'll make it interesting.

A California Nod to Real Winter --- Day 8/295

Walk: Hard Hat Tour of New SF Park, Hood
Distance: 3.5 Miles

Pieter Breugel (the Elder), Hunters in the Snow (January), 1565, oil on wood panel

Ciwt can do no better than Wikipedia in telling you about the iconic Hunters in the Snow (January), probably the most popular subject of all secular Christmas cards.

This painting is an example of the Northern Renaissance movement. The work is one in a series of six works, five of which still survive, that depict different times of the year. 

The painting shows a wintry scene in which three hunters are returning from a hunting expedition accompanied by their dogs. By appearances, the expedition was not successful: the hunters appear to trudge wearily, and the dogs appear downtrodden and miserable. One hunter carries the "meagre corpse of a fox" illustrating the paucity of the hunt. 

The whole visual impression is one of a calm, cold, overcast, day: the colours are muted whites and grays, the trees are bare of leaves, woodsmoke hangs in the air. The landscape itself is a flat-bottomed valley (a river meanders through it) with jagged peaks visible on the far side. A watermill is seen with its wheel frozen stiff*. In the distance, figures ice skate and curl on a freezing lake they appear as silhouetttes.

* Where is that windmill?  Ciwt doesn't see it.

Still January --- 8/293 & 294

Walk: 1. Presidio   2. SFSPCA
Distance: 4 Miles, Small Yoga   2. 1 mile (carrying 10 lb, yowling but fine-ish cat), small yoga stretch

Georgia O'Keefe (1887-1986), White Canadian Barn, 1932, o/c, 12" x 30"  (Metropolitan Museum)

Ciwt is still moving to January's subtle, two-faced and changing rhythms.  

Just What the Doc Ordered --- Days 8/288, 289, 290, 291, 292

Walks: Back and Forth to/from SFSPCA
Distances: 3.5 miles average, small yogas here and there

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys for Life

After spending all week at the vet with her ailing cat Ciwt didn't think anything could make her

laugh and entertain her.  But luckily she was dead (ooops) wrong.  She thought Bad Boys for Life

was a hoot with an engaging, amusing story and great interaction between two even more engaging cop buddies.

Still Doing January --- Day 8/287

Walk: Presidio
Distance: 4 Miles, Wee Yoga

In other words, smelling the roses, that kind of January thing (in California where it's green already).

What January is For --- Days 8/284, 285, 286

Walks: Hood
Distance: 3 x3; Yoga x 3

                  

Contemplating, Laying Back, Reading, Staying in.   

What We Do in the Storm --- Day 8/283

Walk: No, Storm
Distance: 0, Yoga

Ciwt and her cats particularly appreciate yoga on stormy days when they have to stay inside.