Saturday, March 18
Mar. 19th, 2023 12:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
A lovely day above zero. Things were melting a tiny bit, and it just seems more cheerful outside.
I didn't have to go anywhere in particular, so I was able to spend some time with the goats and ponies, just being with them. I very much enjoy just sitting with them, watching them run around, brushing them or giving them scritchies.
The snow is melting and starting to expose more manure, so I spent some time picking some of it up and hauling it over to the compost pile.
Roxy and I went to the park down the road to walk. There is a paved path around the still empty campground that the park keeps somewhat clear. Lots of people seem to walk there in the winter, judging by the footprints in the snow, but I don't see many people when I'm there in the winter.
I did see a muskrat sitting on the road where you come into the park. I tried to move him, because he might get run over, but he was very interested in something on the road. He was gone when I left, and no body, so I guess he went home.
It was a good walk, and a really good day for it.
I came home and mostly read. I'm working on "The Outsider" by Stephen King.
It's interesting how in some of his newer novels, he's making an effort to include modern technology, which WILL make it seem very dated in a few years, but I think he's trying to leave the whole trope of him writing about an era in America that is now long gone (so many of his books are written in Maine, and seem to reflect the America of his youth).
Also, I had watched the miniseries of this novel, and it was a good adaptation. I had hoped that the novel would give more of the inner dialogue of some of the characters, but really, it is almost a perfect mirror of the mini series, and adds no depth to any of the characters.
It's like he writes as if he's writing a screen play.
Most novels have all kinds of "inner dialogue" and extra insights that don't translate to the screen, but this novel reads like a movie.
Today I learned that the Mona Lisa wasn't really that well known until it was stolen in 1911. The Louvre had acquired the painting in 1804, and CRITICS praised it at around 1860, but not until it was stolen and the headlines brought the painting to international awareness did it reach it's current status as an art icon.
The painting was stolen by a carpenter, as the security wasn't really that stringent. The painting these days has all kinds of alarms and security surrounding it. At the time, it just hung on the wall and no one really worried about it being stolen.
Interestingly enough, Picasso was investigated as the potential thief, and somewhat justifiably so. He HAD purchased some stolen sculptures, and it wasn't much of a stretch to think he might buy a stolen painting.
https://www.europeana.eu/en/blog/did-picasso-steal-the-mona-lisa
https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/why-is-the-mona-lisa-so-famous-1234635537/she-was-heisted/
A lovely day above zero. Things were melting a tiny bit, and it just seems more cheerful outside.
I didn't have to go anywhere in particular, so I was able to spend some time with the goats and ponies, just being with them. I very much enjoy just sitting with them, watching them run around, brushing them or giving them scritchies.
The snow is melting and starting to expose more manure, so I spent some time picking some of it up and hauling it over to the compost pile.
Roxy and I went to the park down the road to walk. There is a paved path around the still empty campground that the park keeps somewhat clear. Lots of people seem to walk there in the winter, judging by the footprints in the snow, but I don't see many people when I'm there in the winter.
I did see a muskrat sitting on the road where you come into the park. I tried to move him, because he might get run over, but he was very interested in something on the road. He was gone when I left, and no body, so I guess he went home.
It was a good walk, and a really good day for it.
I came home and mostly read. I'm working on "The Outsider" by Stephen King.
It's interesting how in some of his newer novels, he's making an effort to include modern technology, which WILL make it seem very dated in a few years, but I think he's trying to leave the whole trope of him writing about an era in America that is now long gone (so many of his books are written in Maine, and seem to reflect the America of his youth).
Also, I had watched the miniseries of this novel, and it was a good adaptation. I had hoped that the novel would give more of the inner dialogue of some of the characters, but really, it is almost a perfect mirror of the mini series, and adds no depth to any of the characters.
It's like he writes as if he's writing a screen play.
Most novels have all kinds of "inner dialogue" and extra insights that don't translate to the screen, but this novel reads like a movie.
Today I learned that the Mona Lisa wasn't really that well known until it was stolen in 1911. The Louvre had acquired the painting in 1804, and CRITICS praised it at around 1860, but not until it was stolen and the headlines brought the painting to international awareness did it reach it's current status as an art icon.
The painting was stolen by a carpenter, as the security wasn't really that stringent. The painting these days has all kinds of alarms and security surrounding it. At the time, it just hung on the wall and no one really worried about it being stolen.
Interestingly enough, Picasso was investigated as the potential thief, and somewhat justifiably so. He HAD purchased some stolen sculptures, and it wasn't much of a stretch to think he might buy a stolen painting.
https://www.europeana.eu/en/blog/did-picasso-steal-the-mona-lisa
https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/why-is-the-mona-lisa-so-famous-1234635537/she-was-heisted/
