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shannon_aToday, K. and I went out to the Legion of Honor.
This is always a bit of an undertaking, since it's out in the back corner of San Francisco and San Francisco's streets are slow moving and a pain to get through. But it was more of an undertaking than usual because of K.'s broken foot.
Fortunately, she has access to Paratransit, which got the two of us to and from the Legion of Honor, door-to-door, for just $19 each way. That's a bit more costly than public transit out there, but half the price of Lyft, and, y'know, possible for someone with a broken foot (and no car).
The Paratransit experience was ... not something I would usually subject myself to. They give you a 30-minute window for pickup and you have to schedule your time coming and going.
And the vans, oh, they're awful. Like no shocks and the seats were less comfortable than I'd like.
And both the drivers we had really, really, really wanted to talk.
But, like I said, transit for someone with a broken foot (and no car) gets a definite thumbs up.
And I actually did a lot of writing in the vans, even if it was a little uncomfortable.
We had tasty sandwiches for lunch, which I picked up at Whole Foods on my way home last night. Then it was off to the museum. We immediately walked back through the wing of post-Renaissance artwork, which is our favored side, to the Impressionism and post-Impressionism room at the very end.
That's about the time when I realized that this might be the last time we got out to the Legion of Honor.
I mean, we have almost two years left in the Bay Area. But our membership to the Legion of Honor and DeYoung ends right after our birthdays and so that'll decrease our chances of going out there from something-that-is-sort-of-interesting to if-there's-an-amazing-exhibit that we want to see. And it'd be easy to not have anything in that category for the next 23 months. I know there isn't between now and the end of summer.
So we took special care in the Impressionist room and really looked at all our favorites, and I took several pictures.
We'll be saying good by to a lot of things in the next two years.
The exhibit we saw was "Rodin & Klimt". Which was basically a Klimt exhibit that was for some reason smashed into their normal Rodin galleries, with a bit of extra Rodin sketches and stuff thrown in.
Gustav Klimt is awesome. Kimberly got me a print of one of his works some years ago, and I really like the style. Realistic faces, weird patterning, and art nouveau influences.
They didn't have a lot of Klimt, but they had quite a few pieces and quite a few of them were quite nice. The most surprising was one of his earliest works, which was almost photorealistic. Not necessarily my favorite, because it didn't have the other neat influences, but surprising and pretty.
I was also quite interested in the histories, which talked about his work in the Vienesse Secession. It was a radical departure from classic art, like Impressionism, but in Austria instead of France.
A nice exhibit.
Two catastrophes on the way home.
K. crashed a bit on our way out and hurt her knee and bad foot. Hopefully they'll be better in a day or two.
Then coming up Ashby from the freeway, we saw a dog hit by a car almost in front of us. The dog's owner came streaking out a second later and when she carried the dog off it was wagging its tail. So, surely there were things broken, but hopefully the dog is OK.
And hopefully that won't cast too long a shadow on an otherwise great day.
This is always a bit of an undertaking, since it's out in the back corner of San Francisco and San Francisco's streets are slow moving and a pain to get through. But it was more of an undertaking than usual because of K.'s broken foot.
Fortunately, she has access to Paratransit, which got the two of us to and from the Legion of Honor, door-to-door, for just $19 each way. That's a bit more costly than public transit out there, but half the price of Lyft, and, y'know, possible for someone with a broken foot (and no car).
The Paratransit experience was ... not something I would usually subject myself to. They give you a 30-minute window for pickup and you have to schedule your time coming and going.
And the vans, oh, they're awful. Like no shocks and the seats were less comfortable than I'd like.
And both the drivers we had really, really, really wanted to talk.
But, like I said, transit for someone with a broken foot (and no car) gets a definite thumbs up.
And I actually did a lot of writing in the vans, even if it was a little uncomfortable.
We had tasty sandwiches for lunch, which I picked up at Whole Foods on my way home last night. Then it was off to the museum. We immediately walked back through the wing of post-Renaissance artwork, which is our favored side, to the Impressionism and post-Impressionism room at the very end.
That's about the time when I realized that this might be the last time we got out to the Legion of Honor.
I mean, we have almost two years left in the Bay Area. But our membership to the Legion of Honor and DeYoung ends right after our birthdays and so that'll decrease our chances of going out there from something-that-is-sort-of-interesting to if-there's-an-amazing-exhibit that we want to see. And it'd be easy to not have anything in that category for the next 23 months. I know there isn't between now and the end of summer.
So we took special care in the Impressionist room and really looked at all our favorites, and I took several pictures.
We'll be saying good by to a lot of things in the next two years.
The exhibit we saw was "Rodin & Klimt". Which was basically a Klimt exhibit that was for some reason smashed into their normal Rodin galleries, with a bit of extra Rodin sketches and stuff thrown in.
Gustav Klimt is awesome. Kimberly got me a print of one of his works some years ago, and I really like the style. Realistic faces, weird patterning, and art nouveau influences.
They didn't have a lot of Klimt, but they had quite a few pieces and quite a few of them were quite nice. The most surprising was one of his earliest works, which was almost photorealistic. Not necessarily my favorite, because it didn't have the other neat influences, but surprising and pretty.
I was also quite interested in the histories, which talked about his work in the Vienesse Secession. It was a radical departure from classic art, like Impressionism, but in Austria instead of France.
A nice exhibit.
Two catastrophes on the way home.
K. crashed a bit on our way out and hurt her knee and bad foot. Hopefully they'll be better in a day or two.
Then coming up Ashby from the freeway, we saw a dog hit by a car almost in front of us. The dog's owner came streaking out a second later and when she carried the dog off it was wagging its tail. So, surely there were things broken, but hopefully the dog is OK.
And hopefully that won't cast too long a shadow on an otherwise great day.