Had to break from writing today because I had a trip to the dentist (apparently my new best friend), and then we took my brother-in-law to see a museum exhibit I've anticipated seeing for months.
All the while, I wished I'd slipped my laptop into the car (traffic was terrible because of bad weather). Then at the museum, after I saw the new exhibit, my husband wandered the rest of the collection, which I've seen many times, but he's never visited before. I could have used a notepad and pen! (I did peruse the notepads in the museum shop, but the beloved would rightfully have inquired why I needed yet another notepad/pen combo for my addiction.)
Does anyone else make up stories about the people in the paintings? I can't help myself! (What kind of writer goes anywhere without notepad/pen?)
Off to work! Yay!
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I'm obsessed with paintings when we visit old house and castles... I'll usually wander round till I see one or two that are so vibrant, so alive, that you can't HELP tyring to decide what that person was like, and what happened to them.
Fascinating!
Anna, I love to read when you've been traveling because I always "see" what you describe so well! I loved both your description, the amazing photo, and the writing-musing you did on the clear river the other day.
There's a painting in the National Gallery in D.C. of a member of Louis XVI's court. I can't remember her name because I've been digging for a story of my own about her. There's something in her eyes that I want to know about. :-)
Paintings always intrigue me because I know for all that effort, there MUST be a story there.
Though, I'll make up a story about the people in magazine ads.
LOL, Jenna, on the mag. ads. That's as true as the story in the paintings, though. The ads wouldn't be there without representing a story, huh?
One of the paintings on view once hung in Louis XIV's chapel. I was most taken to think of him and his courtiers standing/kneeling in front of the same painting to take Communion.
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