T Stands for New Year Adventures

Hi everyone. Welcome to the first T Day post for 2020. It is very exciting, isn't it? I love the thought of a whole year of T adventures ahead of us. I wonder what kind of "things" we shall get to see on this year's T day posts over at Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog .                    .

I started my year off with another college hockey game on this past Saturday afternoon. 

This game was in Portland, Maine, and some of our good (from) college friends live there. They invited us to go with them. So we drove over and met them for breakfast before the noontime game. (For those of you who have asked in the past, Portland is about an hour away from where I live in New Hampshire. I live very close to the Maine border-it is only like 2 towns away on the map. And you regular T day ladies might remember my husband and I enjoy an occasional college hockey game.)  

I got to have breakfast at a new diner. This is the Miss Portland diner.

The fun thing I found out about this diner is that it was made by the Worcester (Massachusetts) lunch car company back in 1949. Not only is it a real vintage diner but Worcester is my hometown. I like that connection.

The sad news is I got busy chatting and eating and forgot to take a photo of the inside for you.

But I did remember my breakfast photo.

Eggs, hash and toast. Since it was going on 11 when we ate, I had a Diet Coke for my drink. Everyone else had coffee in those happy yellow mugs. You can see one on the left side of my photo.

After breakfast we headed off to the game.

And I got this photo of our bear mascot as he slated around the arena.

Sometime the mascot obviously can't skate, but right now he's actually pretty good.  He even did a few spins for us.

We are toasting our team's 3-2 win. They were playing the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

The other interesting thing that occured to me and also to my friend Jenny is that for both of us, we are the only couples we each know from college that are still couples. We've all known each other for almost 40 years.
Wow! I guess we are all lucky. And that is even a better celebration than a game win.
Have a super T day.
And
hoping your 2020 has started well!

Lunch at the Museum

Hi everyone.  Its been a couple of hot and humid days here in New Hampshire. In fact this morning (Monday) we had to leave at 4:30 AM for my husband's appointment back at the hospital in Boston, and it was already 71 degrees F (about 22 degrees C). Its hardly ever that hot so early in the morning here. And that weather brings storms, which is what we've got going on tonight.
But the good news is the hubby now doesn't need to go back to Boston for a month, which means he is doing well after his kidney transplant. :) He was going back every week and then every two weeks.
 I'm writing Monday evening to celebrate  Tuesday which is T day. Time to stop by Bleubeard and Elizabeth's  blog and to share a drink and maybe some food. We T Gang regulars would love for you to join us too.

For T Day today I have some more photos from the Museum of Art in Portland, Maine which I visited last Tuesday.

Part of the museum is an historic mansion- the McLellan House. It is only recently been refinished and opened up as one area of the  museum. If you look at this photo of the house, you can see the brick building behind it which is the museum proper. You enter the home from the actual museum, not the front door.

The art of architecture- the walls, trim, windows, stairs and other design elements of the house are the art they are showing here.

(Whole house photo is from Wikipedia.)

The front door and main stairs made quite a statement.

And looked cool from underneath too. Pretty interesting how they are free floating.

There were a few pieces of art in the house. I wonder what was in the original framed white space to start with?

I love these antique plates.

 I think this wallpaper is stunning, but I don't think I could live looking at it every day. But it would make cool fabric for a quilt.

The federal style details are wonderful. I liked the few additions they added, like this mirror that could be lighted with candles for evening viewing since this house was built pre-electricity. The Federal style (roughly 1780-1840) grew out of the US now being a new nation and the European style of the time (that went by names like Georgian, Empire,Regency and  Biedermeier) . 

And for T Day, how about this statue?  I see a coffee pot, milk, pancakes, a donut, and a few other yummies?

A view of the neighboring mansion out one of the windows.

And a view out a different window on the opposite side of the building into some of the homes and business in downtown Portland.

And lastly, I needed a drink and  some lunch-especially with a 1:30 appointment. I had to go talk financial planning for retirement.  Eeks. Sounds a little daunting to me still. So I went down to the museum cafe and had a little lunch.
So I had this chicken salad wrap with chips  (I believe they are crisps in Britain? If not, please let me know)  and a ice tea/lemonade 1/2 and 1/2 drink. Perfect for a very hot day even in an air conditioned art museum.

Got my body and brain in perfect mode to go  to my meeting. :)

Hope you stop by Elizabeth's blog to see what the T Gang has been up too.

Thanks for visiting.

All Kinds of Art

So I have lots of art to show you today. Let me start with my latest piece for Art Journal Journey.

This month Rosie's fun theme is circles. 

I stenciled the moth with paint and then doodled in the circles. I fussy cut it out of the pink paper it was on and stitched it (pretty messily) onto my painted background. Then I added the lace and the circle tag.

And since its a lunar moth, I wrote in "By the Light of the Moon". And at night, you need stars too.:) Can't forget those stars otherwise its an awful dull sky.

So I also went and visited another art museum. I had an appointment in Portland, Maine and had originally decided I would head over early and go play with my new camera lens out at some lighthouses nearby. But with the high heat, that sounded like too much work, So instead I decided to visit the Portland Museum of Art.

The hubby was back at work so he didn't have to go through the  torture of going with me this time. (LOL)

It was about time I went back for a visit since I hadn't been there in at least 10-12 years.

The Portland Art Museum is a wonderful place with  Maine related art and a few Renoir's, Monet's, Miro's and other big art names. It has an eclectic collection. Its not too big, so that it makes it easy to see the whole museum without getting overwhelmed.

I had an enjoyable visit, and thought today  I would share a few photos of some animal art I saw. 

I'm a sucker for animal art.

Since I love animals I really enjoyed this exhibit called Menagerie. Hope you enjoyed these peeks also.

And thanks for stopping by for a visit.