Life Lessons


"Figuring out our gifts in life is part of our journey to becoming enlightened human beings.” – Allison DuBois

Friday, November 13, 2015

Who Knew?

Song - Ali Baba by Los Garcia





Our son Jon came up from LA for a friends wedding this weekend.  On Friday I took him to Benicia to see my current show "Black - White"





 But when we arrived......




They were closed and didn't open for another hour!

So I decided to take Jon on a little tour of historic Benicia 
which used to be our State Capitol for about a nano-second. 



 The "tour" included the Old Arsenal buildings that are being used as Art Studio's, 
Historic Downtown and of course - The Camel Barns!





 Camels in Benicia?????  Who knew?

The camels were a U.S. government experiment in the mid 1800's prior to the Civil War. They wanted to use them for military travel through the arid Southwest and for future railroad survey crews.  




The camel barns were built in 1855 and are built from some amazing chiseled stone. And even though the camels preformed beautifully in the experiment it turned out that they were too smelly, hard to handle and upset the horses.....
so you now can actually have your very own wedding in a camel barn!




Around the back we noticed a bunch of old wood that was protected by an open structure.
   



Jon spotted a hole where the anchor came though.......It was a ship, the Galilee from 1891. 




Next we headed out on the pier where a few birds, several fishermen and one shy sea lion greeted us.




Every time the sea lion came up for air, I would try to snap a photo of him 
but he was too quick and after 706 photos, I still didn't get a good shot of him. 

I think he was just messin' with my mind!





So I just decided to take a picture of someone who was a little more stationary.


Then it was time to head over to the show!

Samples of Light - Medium - Dark






The gallery is set up to move from lighter paintings to the darker ones........



 My painting "The Sound of Silence" is in the "medium" section.










These self-portraits were done by the group of women that I paint with - Bay Area Studio Artists.
Top: Suzun Almquist 
next down left "yours truly" on the right - Sue Bonebakker  
Third row down left is Joanne Taeuffer and right is Marcy Wheeler   
 Bottom row is left - Ellen Reintjes and right Sharon Tama

On Sunday - Nov. 15th we will be having an 
Art Talk & Tour of our work from 1-3pm.

Hope to see you there!


"A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane." 
-- Jackie Kennedy

Monday, November 9, 2015

Ahh....that Smell....

Song - Life is Just A Bowl of Cherries by Rudy Vallee





Woke up to a warm Fall morning in Napa and this was the view outside of our hotel bedroom. And while Mr. B attended a business conference, I drove up to Yountville for a little breakfast and to people-watch.



The line to get into Bouchon Bakery was down the street which is normal for them.  I waited in line anticipating what was inside while enjoying the bakery scent wafting from the door. Mmmm....




Once inside the door I could get a glimpse of what I might want to order.....definitely a loaf of bread to take back to Mr. B and a couple of plain croissants.....and......




...I might need one of those chocolate & almond croissants......and.....




.....they had a few things ready for Fall celebrations.....
(Sorry I can't let you scratch & sniff....it was so wonderful that you will just have to believe me!)



The baker was just pulling out some fresh bread from the oven to test and turn.



Nuff Said......




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