Monday Musings: February 1, 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010 at 17:03 Today was my first bike ride of the year. Woo-hoo. I didn’t have time to go ski, and my knee is having issues with the treadmill suddenly. But for January, a quick 10 miles wasn’t half shabby.
It’s been a busy weekend. Between dinner and lunch engagements and a trip to the Nevada Museum of Art to see the amazing Raphael painting, ‘La Velata’. If you haven’t been to see the piece, you should. It isn’t everyday that you get an opportunity to see one of the most famous paintings in the world, by one of the three greatest masters of Rennaissance art. I hadn’t seen ‘La Velata’ for nearly 35 years, and she’s perhaps more extraordinary today. The NMA has done a wonderful job of curating the work for maximum enjoyment.
I’ve been playing around with Google maps to get a view of places that I used to live. Whoa! Is that weird. The house that I was born and raised in Hialeah, Florida (5795 East 5th Avenue) is very nice now, and has a swimming pool in the backyard. I wish we’d had that then. My mothers house- on the old Murray-Holladay Road - in Salt Lake City isn’t there any more, with fancy condominiums in its place. My old house on Fairoaks Drive in Salt Lake City is just the same, just as neat, but with some landscaping changes.
