Saturday, January 8, 2011

In Which I See Vegetables


Today I went to the National Art Gallery. There was an exhibit of rather interesting paintings by Arcimboldo, an Italian painter from the 1500's. he painted some unique faces composed of fruit, vegetables, marine animals, and other flora and fauna. There was even 4 faces that looked like plain old still lives until you looked at them in a mirror upside down. Then they looked like odd faces! The paintings were rather funny and entertaining. Here is a picture of a sculpture someone made to look like one of that paintings:



Outside the museum was a silver tree. Really. It was like, Oh! A silver tree! It looks like something that should be the symbol of Minas Tirith (wasn't that a white tree though?)


And lastly, here is a picture of me (slightly blurry) through hands. It was an exhibit of 15 pairs of hands. Yeah.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

In Which My Eyes Fall Out

My sister got a festive turtleneck for Christmas. I don't think it was meant to be worn with these pants......


In Which We Make S'Mores

So on Christmas Eve, my sister and I discovered that one can roast mini-marshmallows over candles, and they taste just like over a campfire! Of course, we immediately thought of making s'mores. So, we rounded up tiny graham crackers and used bits of Hershey bars to make them. delicious. See, people can entertain themselves without cable television.