Kandinsky Blew My Mind

The Shy Museum Goer, Diane Tucker, has a new post about the Russian artist, Wassily Kandinsky, a pioneer in abstract painting. The included pictures are all quite different and surprising. I fell in love with the painting Riding Couple which is very different from the pictures that Kandinsky is best known for. I fell in [...]

Marmalade is tasty, if it’s very thickly spread…

Like many people I’m shivering inside my house these days and doing things that seem suitable for this — much colder than necessary — weather. (And I’m not an AI. I hear that AI is fond of dashes but sometimes they are the right punctuation!) For instance, I’m cooking special things. Years ago, when my [...]

Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord

Okay, we celebrated this feast on Sunday, January 11. It is more or less assigned to January 13, but celebrated on the Sunday following the feast of the Epiphany, which is January 6 but moved to the first Sunday in January. Also oddly, the Feast of the Epiphany is considered to be a celebration of [...]

On the twelfth day of Christmas…

The Three Kings Tell Herod of Christ's Birth. Etching. 1549. Augustin Hirschvogel. National Gallery of Art. Public domain. I made Split Pea Soup to celebrate. I used the bone from our Christmas ham, a 16 oz bag of split peas, carefully rinsed, and bought several months ago because around here you can't buy split peas [...]