Monday, December 26, 2022
We were lucky enough to be visited by the RI branch of the family, Kyle and Katrina with 28-month old Adaline.
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Adaline was interested in the beard
of the Christmas gnome (KSS) |
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| Adaline "poses" with the gnome (KSS) |
Tuesday, December 27, 2022
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| Grandma reads to Adaline while Mommy Katrina watches |
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| Went on an outing to the Brandywine Museum of Art |
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The traditional Christmas trees with
ornaments made from natural materials |
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| There seemed to be a wider variety of ornaments this year |
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The Holiday Critters were
exceptional in detail |
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| A couple of reindeer |
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Grandpa photobombed the little lamb
in a hot air balloon |
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| A wreath full of critters |
The current exhibition was
Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art featuring "two galleries of striking works reflecting on the vulnerability of the environment by four leading contemporary artists—Jennifer Angus, Mark Dion, Courtney Mattison and James Prosek—whose work engages with environmental themes."
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New England Cabinet of Marine Debris
(Lyme Art Colony) (2019, by Mark Dion) |
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Still Life in Black and White
(2022, by Mark Dion) |
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One of 27 prints from A World in a Box
(2015, by Mark Dion) (KSS) |
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| Blood Red Coral (2013, by Mark Dion) |
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| Gyre I (2022, by Courtney Mattison) (KSS) |
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| Aqueduct (2016, by Courtney Mattison) (KSS) |
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| Burnt Log with Clay Flowers (2016/2019, by James Prosek) |
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| Flying Squirrels (2013, by James Prosek) (KSS) |
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| Tree of Life (black) (2019, by James Prosek) (KSS) |
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| Looking down on the Critter Christmas trees |
Next was the Brandywine Railroad, a holiday exhibit in its 50th year:
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| A drive-in movie at the Brandywine Railroad display |
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There were a few buttons
for Adaline to activate |
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Within the display you can find
a Wyeth painting a scene |
Back to
Fragile Earth, with
Wistful Wild (2022), an installation by Jennifer Angus:
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Malaysian cicadas in orderly designs surrounded multiple
domed vignettes on the walls |
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There must have been hundreds of
Victorian curiosity cabinet drawers, this
one has an "anthropomorphized insect" |
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Other insects were displayed as in
Victorian-age collections |
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This Coleoptera Cetoniinae sp
beetle is preserved perhaps in honey |
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There was a table full of Victorian-type
curiosity cabinet drawers |
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| A red fox stole was the basis of this display |
Andrew Wyeth grew up in Chadds Ford, a racially-mixed community that grew larger after the Civil War. The people were Andrew's neighbors and friends, and he painted them and the neighborhood, essentially chronicling the area known as "Little Africa" before it all disappeared.
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| Study (1983) for Painted Post |
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| Woodshed (1944) |
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A toddler with a stick and a puddle in the Brandywine
Museum of Art courtyard with Katrina |
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| Adaline with essentially a branch! |
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| Adaline with Helen (1989, by André Harvey) |
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Today's outing was to Tyler Arboretum.
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| Adaline peeks out of the Crooked Goblin's House |
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Unfortunately, the Cape May Bird House
entrance was blocked |
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| Katrina and Adaline in the "bird nest" |
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| Kyle walks with Adaline on a fallen log |
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Reading a page from a story book,
Animals in Winter by Henrietta Bancroft
and Richard G Van Gelder |
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Now Katrina helps Adaline on the
"stepping-stone" tree stumps |
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| Another log has safety netting "handrails" |
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| Lucille's Garden is bare at this time of yeear |
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| Kyle and Ada in the painted Adirondack chairs |
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| Katrina removes a stone from Adaline's boot |
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| Kyle, Adaline, and Katrina in the Three Bears' chairs |
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Wow, even access to the pond was blocked,
as they are dredging the once frozen pond |
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Without leaves of trees and shrubbery, we
have a better view of the replica of Thoreau's cabin |
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| Kyle pushes Adaline through the Diamond Doorway |
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Access was blocked to both the Fort Tyler Tree House
and this Tulip Tree House |
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| Some bright holly berries |
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| Wooden snowmen at the entrance |
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| A pine cone pipe |
Back at Granite Farms Estates, Adaline wanted to see all the Christmas trees again!
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| Kent, Tamiko, Adaline, Kyle (by Katrina) |
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| Grandpa, Adaline, and Grandma, all with legs crossed |
We are so grateful that Kyle and Katrina with Adaline came to visit us, to help make Christmas 2022 more memorable!
