Monday, April 11, 2011

Met, Again

We made a trip to the Met last week to get out of the house while poor Jason was stuck at home doing taxes.

Visiting Paul Manship's bears in the playground outside:


Being the bear:


Hanging out at Cleopatra's Needle (an ancient obelisk with hieroglyphs), where Rosie tried to start a school by asking total strangers to be in her class. We also went into a pine forest part of Central Park I'd never been to before and saw a tiny little woodpecker making a whole lot of noise. A crowd had gathered near the tree he was in trying to locate him.

The sort-of excuse for going (I haven't dragged R to see art for awhile) was that she has a terrific book called You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum, where a girl goes with her grandma and sees a bunch of paintings and sculptures. Here she is excited to see her favorite painting from the book,


which is this Fragonard painting of the funny lady with her little dog and her oddly knowing look.


1 comment:

Laura said...

The lady was obviously caught in the act of attempting to eat the little pup.