Paintings in Provo

At the BYU Museum of Art there is a special exhibit.  It started on November 15, 2013, and will run until May 10, 2014.  It is called Sacred Gifts, and is a collection of art from Carl Bloch, Heinrich Hofmann, and Frans Schwartz.

So yesterday I went to this exhibit with some of my family.  It was very nice and I had seen several of the paintings in reprints.  There was one painting that I had never seen before and it was beautiful.  It may be my new favorite!

Frans Schwartz (1850—1917), 

Agony in the Garden, 1898, Oil on canvas, 

Nørresundby Kirke, Nørresundby, Denmark, 

Photograph courtesy of Hans Nyberg

 One of my nieces walked around with me and it was a lot of fun to spend time with her!  If you have an iPad, not an iPod or iPhone, you can download an app that has more information about each painting that was brought for this exhibit.

~Adventures in Anything & Everything

Bruises and Bikes in Japan

One afternoon/evening in Japan,  I was riding a bike out of the parking area behind the apartment complex where I lived and something happened that I lost control!  I was wearing a helmet, because there had been several "almost accidents" while riding my bike!  Most times, sometimes the cars didn't see me when they are turnings corners, and I had been "almost hit" one more than one occasion.   This day, there were no cars to cause me to lose control, but for some reason I lost control.  I ended up flying over the handlebars and ended up flat on the ground. 

I ended up with a huge bruise on my right shoulder and another on my right thigh!  The bruise on my thigh looked like a shoe print, I must have done some amazing acrobatics while flying over the handlebars!  I was surprised that I didn't break something or have more bruising...

 

I should have taken a few pictures when my bruises started to turn all yellow and green, but I think these were taken the day after my acrobatics over the handlebar.


~Adventures in Anything & Everything