These photos are from the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, CA. My mom and I went up a few weeks ago on the train and took public transportation to see the Annie Liebowitz photography show and a transforming Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the Legion. It was a spare the air day and extremely hot. Poor mom was frazzled by the time we made it there. But she revived after I saw the exhibit from the Holy Land. It was breathtaking...just fragments of script from Genesis and a Psalm. Mom had seen all this in Israel so she opted to rest. I hadn't seen any of the exhibits at the Legion of Honor so I also took these in before I returned to her and the A.L. exhibit. There were ancient collections (i.e. Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan) and Renaissance paintings. The latter were not up to what I have seen in larger museums in New York and London, especially. But the ancient art was fascinating as usual.
Annie L.'s show was wonderful with all her famous photos of celebs and some really amazing landscapes on the gigantic scale. But the unique part was her combining of her private, personal, family photos with the commercial.
The breathtaking glass sculpture of the sun in front of the Legion of Honor is by Dale Chihuly but more on that later. The larger than life bronze sculpture is the famous The Thinker, by Rodin, both outside on the plaza of the Legion of Honor.
Anyway, I chose to celebrate in this entry, even though the Climate Security Act went down in the Senate last week, good news still abounds with the research on hydrogen fuel cells. I actually saw an add on tv last week sponsored by Exxon Mobil Corp. to encourage us to invest in oil technology for drilling. They just don't get the CO2 thing yet, all their greed blinding them. I loved the trip my mom and I took a few weeks ago, on a spare the air day, we were off the grid using mass transit the whole way.
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