Sunday, February 10, 2008

Snow and the arts

Minus 10, wind chill of minus thirty-five.

Okay, that's right now. The good news is that it is supposed to get up to just below zero later in the day. We aren't supposed to get above freezing, though, all week.

Yesterday we decided we had to get out of the house, but because of the weather, there were not many nearby options. Because the main claim to fame around here is the natural beauty, when it is cold, windy and snowy, those things are not so accessible to someone like me with tricky joints and sensitive to cold.The nearest indoor mall for walking is in Madison, about an hour away. And we may be going to Madison next weekend to attend a model train show that interests Tom.

I wanted to go to an art museum, but the only one close is in Portage, the Portage Center for the Arts, a small place in an old church building. They had an exhibit of watercolors by Helen R. Klebesadel, a Madison artist. There were some very nice (and very pricey) things, but I couldn't find a picture of any of the ones I liked to post here. Some of her things look almost Asian, and she had a gorgeous one of white peonies. At $350, it was one of the least expensive.

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