Issy Studio --- Day 3/316

Walk: Presidio Golf Course, Laurel Village
Distance: 3.8 miles, home yoga (2 small)

Matisse painted two important and famous portraits of his Issy studio which was an unusual turn for his protective and private character.


Henri Matisse, Pink Workshop, 1911, 70 5/8" x 87", o/c      (Pushkin Museum, Moscow)



Henri Matisse, Red Studio, 1911, 71 1/4" x 7' 2.25", o/c      (Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Matisse's Issy House --- Day 3/315

Walk: Fillmore Street, Trader Joe's 
Distance: 3.5 miles and home yoga practice



Maison d'Henri Matisse a Issy-les-Moulineaux, France (1909- ca1929)

The house is surrounded by a large garden with ponds and a greenhouse.  Matisse erected a large pre-fab studio on the grounds (which he brought with him during his travels to ensure a place to work on his often enormous canvasses ).

The Best Holiday --- Day 3/314

Walk: No
Distance: 0, Thankful for a peaceful day with Callie reading about Matisse 

Special Sidewalks --- Day 3/313

Walk: Presidio Heights, JCCSF
Distance: 2.6 miles and stationary bike

  

  

  

On her walk this morning, Ciwt began to notice some of the special gardens people have created on the sidewalks in front of their homes.  Some of them were positively Versailles-like.  A gift to themselves and to those of us who walk around the city.

Judging the Soup by its Cover --- Day 3/312

Walk: Trader Joe's, Mindful Body
Distance: 2 miles and teach yoga class

Ciwt's local paper did a spread on soups today.  In concentrating on copying them Ciwt - who Loves! soups - found they don't photograph all that appealingly.  Which brought her mind to soup Tureens, which she also loves and photograph much more handsomely.



The most expensive on record was this Germain Royal Soup Tureen which sold at Sotheby's 13 November, 1996 for $10,287,500 million.  It was designed by French silversmith Thomas Germain in the Rococo style popular at the time, made in 1733 as a gift for Louis XV and weighs 30 pounds. Besides quality, it's price is surmised to relate to the fact the tureen is one of the few remaining Parisian silver soup tureens and therefore very rare.  Sotheby's described the tureen as "an object steeped in history, that survived the melts ordered to pay for the Seven Years' War and the French Revolution."



But Ciwt found herself more attracted to this superb rectangular hand chased sterling silver tureen by Dominick and Haff, circa 1881.

    

But then there are these beauties.  Oh dear, what is Ciwt to select with her millions?

Glitzy Pleasures -- Day 3/311

Walk: Rabata Sushi, Fillmore Street
Distance: 2 miles and home practice




Tonight Ciwt learns which couple's name goes on the coveted Mirror Ball Trophy for winning this season's Dancing with the Stars.

LINES - Day 3/310

Walk: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Distance: 1.5 miles and small home yoga



Ciwt is looking forward to Alonzo King's LINES ballet tonight.  She was also interested to read on his blog that he is a devotee of the late Paramahansa Yogananda whose name comes around often in her yoga teaching life.

".....Yogic master and Avatar Paramahansa Yogananda understands from atom to cosmos the entirety of the search for the Absolute, and details it with mind-boggling wonder in the spiritual classic, Autobiography of a Yogi.

Autobiography of a Yogi is the Rosetta stone on the art of living. It has answered every question for me on art and how to live life. There are no words to describe the high realms of the writing, but more potent is the expansion that results from its consumption."

Community Meetings --- Day 3/309

Walk: Waldorf School (Alta Plaza Park Renovation Meeting), Rose's Cafe
Distance: 1 mile and home yoga


   
    

          

Community meetings, an ancient practice Ciwt is trying to get better at.