Distance: 0, small yoga
Ciwt took advantage of storm advisories to stay home to ensure this doesn't happen on her trip to --- you know where.
Saturday, January 7, 2017
Packing Practice --- Day 5/320
Walk: No
Distance: 0, small yoga
Ciwt took advantage of storm advisories to stay home to ensure this doesn't happen on her trip to --- you know where.
Distance: 0, small yoga
Ciwt took advantage of storm advisories to stay home to ensure this doesn't happen on her trip to --- you know where.
Friday, January 6, 2017
Relative Tempatures --- Day 5/319
Walk: Pre-"Epic Storm" Hood Errands
Distance: 4.5 miles, small yoga
Temperatures as Ciwt writes:
San Francisco,CA 48 degrees with nearby National Parks Point Reyes and Yosemite closing ahead of "Rain of the Century"
Sun Valley, Idaho 1.7 degrees with Winter Storm Watch which must have them ecstatic
Minneapolis, MN 1 degree
New York, NY 29 degrees
Paris, France 30 degrees
But Spring is on the way at Trader Joe's:
Daffodils Tulips
Distance: 4.5 miles, small yoga
Temperatures as Ciwt writes:
San Francisco,CA 48 degrees with nearby National Parks Point Reyes and Yosemite closing ahead of "Rain of the Century"
Sun Valley, Idaho 1.7 degrees with Winter Storm Watch which must have them ecstatic
Minneapolis, MN 1 degree
New York, NY 29 degrees
Paris, France 30 degrees
But Spring is on the way at Trader Joe's:
Daffodils Tulips
Thursday, January 5, 2017
First Week --- Day 5/318
Walk: Marin Driving Day, Fillmore
Distance: 1.8, small stretch
Strange time of year. Have you noticed? Stores are sort of half stocked and the people in them or on the sidewalks seem about half there. So much energy goes into the holidays ending the year, and then there is this little empty opening into the new year that nobody really knows what to do with.
Distance: 1.8, small stretch
Strange time of year. Have you noticed? Stores are sort of half stocked and the people in them or on the sidewalks seem about half there. So much energy goes into the holidays ending the year, and then there is this little empty opening into the new year that nobody really knows what to do with.
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Tout le Monde Rain --- Day 5/317
Walk: Union Square
Distance: 1.5 miles, small yoga stretch
Gustave Caillebotte, (Fr. 1848-94), Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877, 83.6" x 108 3/4", oil on canvas
Another great and famous painting. Caillebotte, possibly the most wonderful Impressionist painter of all.
Looks like the weather Ciwt is used to here in San Francisco these day and will soon be experiencing in this exact location. We'll see....
Distance: 1.5 miles, small yoga stretch
Gustave Caillebotte, (Fr. 1848-94), Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877, 83.6" x 108 3/4", oil on canvas
Ciwt can often be surprised by the size of a painting she's seen only in pictures.
Another great and famous painting. Caillebotte, possibly the most wonderful Impressionist painter of all.
Looks like the weather Ciwt is used to here in San Francisco these day and will soon be experiencing in this exact location. We'll see....
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Dance --- Day 5/316
Walk: No, Rain and Begin the new year office work
Distance: 0 (a few times up and down Ciwt's considerable stairs), Home yoga
Henri Matisse, The Dance, 1910, 8' 6" x 12' 10", oil on canvas
So, you may ask, why is Ciwt all of a sudden going to Paris - in the middle of the winter, no less?
The answer is essentially, to see Dance, the painting above. Like many, many people, Ciwt has a long history with it, beginning with one of her first posters and then drooling over it every time she read about it and/or saw its image in one of her several Matisse art books.
Dance was painted specifically for the Russian businessman and art collector, Count Sergei Shchukin, who was a major early patron and friend of Matisse. Until the October Revolution of 1917 it hung together with its companion piece, Music, on the staircase of Shchukin's Moscow mansion. But, not quietly. From the moment Dance arrived in Moscow it was a source of outrage and scandal, with some of the Count's friends refusing to come dine with him in proximity of the 'outrageous' images.
Since 1910 Dance has only left Russia once - for six weeks. And during that time the unparalled Shchukin collection of French Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early modern painting was broken up. Now 130 materpieces from it have been reunited and loaned to the Foundation Louis Vuitton for three months. It is an extraordinary art event and achievement, and Dance is the icon among icons. When the exhibition closes in February, it is assumed that Dance will never again leave Russia - or certainly not in Ciwt's lifetime.
So, that's why Ciwt goes to Paris in the middle of winter. Take away all the hoopla and fame of the painting, young art student and lover Ciwt never, ever in her wildest dreams thought she would be face to face with Dance's joyous energy.
Distance: 0 (a few times up and down Ciwt's considerable stairs), Home yoga
Henri Matisse, The Dance, 1910, 8' 6" x 12' 10", oil on canvas
So, you may ask, why is Ciwt all of a sudden going to Paris - in the middle of the winter, no less?
The answer is essentially, to see Dance, the painting above. Like many, many people, Ciwt has a long history with it, beginning with one of her first posters and then drooling over it every time she read about it and/or saw its image in one of her several Matisse art books.
Dance was painted specifically for the Russian businessman and art collector, Count Sergei Shchukin, who was a major early patron and friend of Matisse. Until the October Revolution of 1917 it hung together with its companion piece, Music, on the staircase of Shchukin's Moscow mansion. But, not quietly. From the moment Dance arrived in Moscow it was a source of outrage and scandal, with some of the Count's friends refusing to come dine with him in proximity of the 'outrageous' images.
Since 1910 Dance has only left Russia once - for six weeks. And during that time the unparalled Shchukin collection of French Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early modern painting was broken up. Now 130 materpieces from it have been reunited and loaned to the Foundation Louis Vuitton for three months. It is an extraordinary art event and achievement, and Dance is the icon among icons. When the exhibition closes in February, it is assumed that Dance will never again leave Russia - or certainly not in Ciwt's lifetime.
So, that's why Ciwt goes to Paris in the middle of winter. Take away all the hoopla and fame of the painting, young art student and lover Ciwt never, ever in her wildest dreams thought she would be face to face with Dance's joyous energy.
Monday, January 2, 2017
Paris Awaits --- Day 5/315
Walk: Presidio, Trader Joe's
Distance: 3.5 miles, small home yoga
Jacques Henri Lartique (French Photographer and Painter, 1894-1986)
Ciwt's Paris preparations begin in earnest...
Distance: 3.5 miles, small home yoga
Jacques Henri Lartique (French Photographer and Painter, 1894-1986)
Ciwt's Paris preparations begin in earnest...
Sunday, January 1, 2017
Saturday, December 31, 2016
The CIWT, Best Actor 2016 --- Day 5/314
Walk: Opera Plaza Cinema (Hacksaw Ridge)
Distance: 3.8 miles
Stand back, Casey, Denzel and other contenders, Ciwt has decided that her pick for CIWT Best Actor 2016 in all the Award Ceremonies is....Andrew Garfield as Desmond Doss in Hacksaw Ridge. Plus she doesn't have to compromise anything: Garfield is a beautifully trained and seasoned British-American actor, he works on behalf of excellent causes, and seems to be an all around thoughtful, intelligent and good guy.
Distance: 3.8 miles
Stand back, Casey, Denzel and other contenders, Ciwt has decided that her pick for CIWT Best Actor 2016 in all the Award Ceremonies is....Andrew Garfield as Desmond Doss in Hacksaw Ridge. Plus she doesn't have to compromise anything: Garfield is a beautifully trained and seasoned British-American actor, he works on behalf of excellent causes, and seems to be an all around thoughtful, intelligent and good guy.
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