Walking through Kensington Gardens
Arbor of grape vines in Kensington Palace gardens
Kensington Palace
Garden that Princess Diana liked to walk in and talk with gardeners.
Line of people waiting to get into the public section of Kensington Palace
Planted in white flowers in memory of Princess Diana who died 20 years ago.
Off to the Victoria and Albert Museum to see some of the items we missed previously.
It is possible to enter the museum from its main door on Cromwell but the entrance on Exhibition Road is so convenient. Even with handbags and totes being checked there was no line at the security desk.
A cold and windy day with hardly anyone in the inner court with pool. Not much later we saw two young children running through the pond and standing on fountains so that they could not spray. I do not think it had become any warmer.
The first exhibit we looked at was a large donation of items by Arthur and Rosalind Gilbert.
The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection celebrates some of the most beautiful objects ever made, many in precious materials, and often on a small scale. It is famous for European and British masterpieces including gold and silver, gold boxes, painted enamels and mosaics.
Snuff boxes. Most of the ones on display were table top boxes. Definitely too large to carry
in a pocket.
to look inside.
Apparently in the art world a rapid response is a quickly acquired acquisition
Somehow we drifted into the 20th Century without realizing it. The Professor says this looks
like the amount of luggage, I used to carry.
I cannot remember if this not-so-stylish car is a German Wartburg or a British made Hillman.
A few days later, we saw this car on the street. It reminded me of the car we had seen in a display at the Victor and Alberta. Not a perfect match, but not too bad.
This dresser reminds me so much of one that my mother owned. She sold it when we moved to
Georgia. I am sad that she sold it. Of course, I did not realize how beautiful it was when I was a teenager. My mother's was made with two different types of wood, one was inlaid.
An article from the Guardian
The burkini ban: what it really means when we criminalise clothes
The subject comes from Laurence Sterne's novel A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768). It depicts, 'poor Maria sitting under a poplar...with her elbow in her lap…and her head leaning on one side…dressed in white'. A dog takes the place of her lost lover. The artist was the elder brother of the painter Edwin Landseer.
I have always been attracted to paintings and works of art depicting women reading.
Maybe it is because I have four beautiful daughters who all enjoy reading.
This statue was created by Jules Dalou. He is the artist who did the mother nursing a baby (in terra cotta) that I liked so much on my first visit to the V and A.
This version is in the Musee du Petit Palais in Paris
Also by Dalou
Jules Dalou, Woman Reading (La Liseuse), 1873. Terracotta. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.
Tapestries woven in wool
I have seen photographs in the newspaper of costumes used in The Lion King, but the costumes were nothing like these beautiful ones at the V and A
I have never seen Swan Lake but I always imagine that the prima ballerina would be dressed in white.
For all of the Fred Astaire fans in my life...including me.
Punch and Judy
the original battering each other couple
Lunch at the Polish restaurant Daquise today.
Cucumber soup filled with lots of vegetables and minced cutlet with mashed potatoes and a beet salad. I enjoyed lunch but I much prefer the tomato soup with a pork chop.
On the corner of Exhibition and Cromwell Roads
Unfamiliar flowers. They looked just like yellow puffed wheat cereal on the branches.
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