Fashion and Antiquity

 I Spent most of today with some fabulous ladies over fifty at the metropolitan Museum of Art viewing the Spring 2012 Fashion collections of someone named Schiaparelli, whom I personally had never heard of and Prada. I never really thought of fashion as being art until I viewed this collection. There truly was a wow factor in these designs and It was amazing to see the similarities between the two designers even though they were decades apart. Although Schiaparelli is a designer from the 1930's, her designs to me are fabulous in any decade. I would wear them. Then we went over to the Egyptian exhibit. Amazing!. I have never been that close to a mummy before. Everything was awe inspiring. All in all a good day.

A Summer's Eve

Hot, lazy summer evenings and ice cold lemonade takes me back to my old neighborhood where I grew up.  On nights like this, everyone would be out on their porches drinking homemade lemonade, just trying to stay cool and all the kids in the neighborhood would be out playing kick ball or hide and seek, which was a particular popular game.  The heat just sort of forced everyone outdoors, you got to know your neighbor. That's what I miss most. Here everyone stays indoor each in their own air conditioned space with their children playing hide and seek on social networking sites. We would stay outside until late into the night.  Even the ice cream truck came around late.  That's another thing I miss, the sound of the ice cream trucks.  Oh wait, we buy it at the supermarkets.  There was no curfew because it was so hot, we couldn't even to sleep.  Oh well, here and now I just got me a tall glass of ice cold lemonade, stocked the refrigerator and the cupboards and I told my kids, they're on their own, because I just want to lay perfectly still.

Fireworks

The sun's gone down and it was a bit cooler out which made it the perfect night to enjoy an evening in the park at the Town of Newburgh's annual community day and their pre-4th of July fireworks celebration,  The only problem was then having to walk the mile of so back to where I parked my car, but it was worth it.  It might not have been in as grand a scale of New York City but the look on the kids faces was priceless.