Lights...Camera...Wait.

We are packed and ready… this year, I am no longer shocked that we managed to fit all that we are bringing into two carry-on knapsacks. (Though again I say whoo hoo to “space bags.” P.A. you are genius. Watching M. squish the air out of them is also amusing, albeit a little scary, but they do work amazingly.)


And while, yes, some of you know I did “work” today as evidenced by e-mail, it wasn’t a lot of work…and not much time… And I did do lots of getting ready, and errands and all that stuff.  And I'm deep into that pre-trip fuss mode: do we have everything? Is everything printed? Should I print the boarding passes twice?  What if we lose them? What if someone else gets one of them? Maybe I shouldn't print them twice... What if they cancel the flight? What if a bird flies into the engine?  What if....

Still, we did do one  little vacation-y thing today, which in part is why I write…

For those of you reading in region, you need to get to the New Britain Museum of Art. Besides it being the best, way coolest art museum I think I’ve ever been in, it currently has two special exhibits that are well worth it. First, and the less exciting to me is an Escher show.

You know all those posters we’ve seen forever? Water running up hill? Ants on a mobius strip? Hands drawing? Etc. Etc. Etc. Well, they are there, live (so to speak.) This was actually rather interesting, as unlike most graphic work, this work was better in person than in reproduction.

Also at the museum and actually more interesting to me is work of a man named Dalton Ghetti. Believe it or not he’s from Bridgeport (of all places) and he carves intricate little things in the lead on the tip of pencils. One of his more notable pieces (currently at the museum) is the alphabet, each letter on the top of one pencil.  (I have a thing for the alphabet - hard to explain, but results in multple alphabet books and posters, so I just HAD to see these.)  They are about the coolest things I've seen in ions.  They are teeny tiny and very amazing.  According to the information we found, he does these without a magnifying glass or any special tools. Hard to believe by these pictures, but these little guys are about a half a cm to maybe 1 cm in size.

 For more pictures and info see: http://www.silvermineart.org/gallery/exhibition_detail.cfm?exhibitionID=119

and/or search him online.