Called On Account of Rain

Song - All We Do - Oh Wonder - Cover by Sierra Eagleson


It's raining again here in California, so Mr. B and I decided to head to the art museum in San Francisco to see the Monet exhibit.  We timed it perfectly so we wouldn't get stuck in commuter traffic or the Giant's home opener traffic.  Off to the Legion of Honor! 

I showed the lady our online tickets, picked up our audio guides and went to walk in and saw.......

 ....this....

....and this.....oops.....that does not look like Monet!  It was a Rubens exhibit......did we miss it?
Nope.  I had the wrong museum!  So while we did take a quick peek at the Rubens show (not really our cup of tea) we quickly headed over to the deYoung to see Monet.

 Now that's better.......

 Just look at all the colors he used in this close-up........

The exhibit was titled - Monet: The Late Years and included about 50 pieces of art that he did from 1913-1926, where he spent most of his time at home in Giverny, his home near Paris France.

 He loved his garden and was passionate about his Lily Pond. He would often paint the same view at different times of the day to see how the colors changed.

 Once again, amazing color on top of color.

 In his later years he developed cataracts and eventually had surgery to correct his vision.  His palate changed from blues and greens to orange and yellows.

 But still powerful color....

 Also at the deYoung was a Gauguin exhibit that was interesting and is the first one at the Fine Arts Museum dedicated to the work of Paul Gauguin.

 He met and married his wife, a Danish women, Mette-Sophie Gad and they had five children.  After 11 years their marriage fell apart when Paul Gauguin decided to paint full time. 

This is a tiny portrait of his wife - about 3 x 4".

 Paul Gauguin - 1848-1904

 Similar to Monet, Gauguin had layer upon layer of color.

Amazing color in the water..... 

While Mr. B and I did get to see three amazing exhibits, we did miss our first home opener with the Giants in 19 years.  While returning home we saw the fireworks from the freeway and I had my camera ready for the fly-over (my favorite!) but alas we either missed it or they did not do it this year.

The only fly-over I saw was a big black crow flying over our car!

"I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers." 

--Claude Monet

Bye Bye Baby

Song - SF Giants Fight Song

You know what day it is?  It's TBT - Throw Back Thursday!

 Jill, John "The Count" Montefusco & me

Circa 1975

On September 29, 1976, Montefusco threw a no hitter for the 

SF Giants in a 9 - 0 victory verses the Atlanta Braves.

Jill and I used to go to many Giant games 
at Candlestick Park and occasionally 
hung out with the players.  

I guess we were Giant "groupies" -
we have some fun memories from that time....

....now we go to the games 
with our sweet husbands and behave!!!

"She asked me to tell her the three words that every girl wants to hear.  So I whispered, "Let's Go Giants" in her ear. 

- Someecards

Boats, Planes and Bats

Song - Take Me Out to the Ball Game by Crazy Uke

On Monday morning, Mr. B and I drove over to the city and the first boat I noticed was "Little Toot".  I just love tug boats but I really don't know why. Just look at that massive ship it is guiding under the Bay Bridge.

And then we parked next to this little ship that I couldn't even fit on my camera from across the street. We met our good friends, Jodi and Chris at a restaurant near there.

And this is one of the last boats that I noticed.....quite the deal.  Hot tub, BBQ and cooler all while floating in McCovey's Cove.  And you probably guessed why we were in San Francisco.....it was the Giant's home opener!!!

The jets for the "fly over" circled while the cast of Hamilton sang the National Anthem.

A humongous flag was unfurled and you could feel the vibrations of the planes coming closer as the song ended.

And once they are over head and pass you by, the sound is deafening, exciting and fun!  Go Giants!

Let's Play Ball!

The usual cast of colorful characters were there.

Fans....

Hunter Pence without all of his hair.....

Buster Posey......

And.....see that bald head in a suit?

It's Barry Bonds back on the team as a special advisor to the CEO.

You just have to trust me on this one because I forgot to take his photo when he had a standing ovation so I looked through all of my fan photo's and this was all I could find....

Willie Mays and Willie McCovey, Kruk and Kype were there as well.

The Giant's won the opener 4-1 against the Arizona Diamondbacks!!!

Hooray!!!

Beautiful day with Mr. B and friends.  I even got a sunburn!

"Little League baseball is a good thing because it keeps the parents off of the streets."  -- Yogi Berra

Instant Replay

Song - Take Me Out to the Ball Game by Peavy & Flannery & Giants


On Thursday the SF Giants had their Home Opener and guess who was there?

Yup...me and Mr. B!


We dropped Mika off in the morning at my mom's house and mom was all decked out (along with Mr. B) in dad's CRAWFORD shirt!

Pretty cute huh?

Getting off the Bay Bridge and heading to the Pier parking lot - I just love this view of the bridge.

Buster Posey greeted us at the stadium as did our good friends Chris & Jodi
who joined us at the game!

The excitement was palatable!!!

Everyone was decked out in Orange and Black (except for the Dodger fans (boo-hiss - JK)!

The pre-game announcers were all decked out on a beautiful day in April. Hi Shawn!!!

The Dodgers were warming up and preparing to whoop the Giants!

It's always fun to people watch at AT&T Park but especially on Opening Day!

I gotta get Mr. B a suit like that! Just for special occasions of course!!!

The Extra Large American Flag was brought out in style............

And long may it wave..........

They brought out Little Leaguers and Willie Mays.  

We had not one but two flyover's!!!

A big ol' jet airliner..............

And a flock of seagulls.

I don't know what happened to the Blue Angels this year.  

But I was majorly bummed....

Until I remembered that Hunter Pence is right near our seats 

- insert big smile HERE!

Everyone was ready....

The boating fans were ready!

The SF police were ready!

And then it was kind of boring for 4 innings and not just because the Dodgers were winning. 
Mostly because our Giants were playing like it was their first practice game. 
Peavy didn't pitch well and we made some fumbles out in the field and
No One was hitting well!

 The fans were so bored

that ice cream was getting it's close up shot in the seats in front of me.

But then somehow we came alive!!!

We caught up and then passed the Dodgers by!

We stood up and cheered our little hearts out!

We had pow-wow's in the infield.

Hi guys....welcome back!

Fans were catching fly balls - barehanded!!!!

Dodger and Giant fans were friends again.

All was right in our part of the world.

Then we began to get in our flow!


And then......

Three Giants got on base.....

And then Hunter Pence hit a Grand Slam!!!!!

Posey couldn't get the grin off his face in the next inning.

And that's the final score folks!

The boys are back in town!


"Baseball, it is said, is only a game.  True.  And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.  Not all holes, or games, are created equal."  -  George Will

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