It has been a very good vacation week here in the Berkshires. Work has been beckoning, but I've managed to keep it largely at bay, with only a few hours taken from the week... not bad, given all that is happening. Monday will be an adventure, I'm sure, but I'm trying not to think about it until at least Sunday afternoon. With limited success.
We went to the Clark Museum in Williamstown, MA, to see the Arthur Dove/Georgia O'Keeffe exhibit, which was wonderful. I'd never seen their work displayed side by side. Remarkable how strongly Dove influenced O'Keeffe, who credits him with her introduction to modernism. And it is clear that O'Keeffe influenced Dove's later work when he moved to watercolor.
Arthur Dove's "Sea Gull Motive" and Georgia O'Keeffe's "Dark Iris":
Remarkable, no?
Last night we saw "Away We Go" with Maya Rudolph. What a funny, interesting, touching movie. Just wonderful - a hearty laugh and a few tears if you are a true cinematic weeper like me.
We continue to sample the great restaurants of the Berkshires including a light supper at Napa in Great Barrington last night. I had a yummy red lentil soup with chorizo and smoked paprika and a roasted beet salad with arugala, Berkshire blue cheese and toasted almonds, with a glass of Fabre Montmayou Classico Malbec from Argentina. Is there a better way to end the day? Not likely, especially since young Fisherman A joined us and added good conversation and several very amusing tales of his day to day toils as a server at a posh Berkshire retreat.
On to Becket this evening, and dear friends C & P, their daughter and her husband, the wonderful A & E, and grandaughter, the amazing and lovely baby J. All on the shore of beautiful and huge Yokum Pond. This will be a nice way to end my Berkshire retreat.
