A lazy Christmas

California Street with a zoom lens



It was a lazy decorating Christmas

Yes, the tree is supposed to be the root ball with the red ornaments. We were just not up for a tree this year. We'll bounce back next year. When you don't have kids running around it's easy to make excuses. This is our first time. It seems we are not the only ones. A quick drive through the neighborhood shows a significant decline in outdoor lighting etc.

 

Upon returning to SF for a month during the holidays it doesn't take long to get right back into our fur lined rut. Museum exhibits, most of the movies contending for academy awards, dinner parties, great walks, boxes of chocolate, the perfect car to drive, HOT water, you know, the normal things. We basically cram into one month what we probably would have done together in SF over the previous five.

 

This holiday season was especially nice, lasting almost seven weeks. I arrived the day before Thanksgiving just catching my bother and sister in law from Australia.

It's not all play however. I generally bring home a long punch list of "things" I have to buy that fit in my luggage.

 

 

http://www.sfmoma.org/about/press/press_exhibitions/releases/937

 

the Presidio walk that never gets boring

 

a new house--a rare event in this area of SF

Another Andy Goldsworthy installation in the Presidio. Three cheers for his liking SF. I'm for anything that cuts down the Eucalyptus trees. Not native and they burn hot. Make sure you check out the google link of his work. Very interesting stuff, a lot of which disappears with the elements.

http://www.presidio.gov/explore/Pages/andy-goldsworthy-spire-wood-line.aspx#.Usx_m8jD_Dc

 This is a google link to pictures of his work. http://tinyurl.com/kog49qh

 

The best movie of the seven we saw.

 

A great private collection. Walking through it is hard to imagine having so many wonderful paintings hanging on the wall. I'm glad someone got to enjoy it.

 

William Paley

 http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/A-Taste-for-Modernism-review-artistry-flair-3866009.php



this would look good on St John   ;~)


In art related news from St John.....heiress Lisa de Kooning was found dead at her home.

http://tinyurl.com/mpoyx57

 

 

Not everyday is sunny. The famous fog horns as freighters pass under the Golden Gate.

 

Her 21st birthday. Only 125K miles.

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaJ3XQBqKn0

 

If you like ballet, I think they are some of the best athletes in the world maybe the best, this was a great installation. You felt like you were backstage, all the while with life size videos of several performances playing, shrouded by thin curtains. It was great. I had no idea he got busted in the Haight at a party. Too perfect.

 

 

Even if you think you don't like ballet give this a chance. Margot Fonteyn was in her mid forties while Nureyev was in his mid twenties. She retired at 61! Full screen of course.

 

The one exhibit I missed. She came just after I left SF.

 http://www.thestylesaloniste.com/2013/01/girl-with-pearl-earring-opens-at-de.html




Tennis buddies

New Years at Lake Tahoe. Denise's friend Carolyn and her husband have a wonderful home overlooking the lake. What a lucky invite. As it turns out her husband Bob and I practically lived in the same tenement building in Manhattan when we were still in diapers. What are the chances. 

 

 The view out our bedroom. Cut a tree down? Go to jail. 

 It's a crazy world. A couple of days later, a different beach, the sand is white and the temps are in the 80's. It's back to work.



I'm back at the beach....