Bad Weather-Change of Plans

Our plans were set, the costumes sewn, ironed, and ready to go… How I could have known that we were going to wake to cold, windy, rainy weather!!! I know, I could have looked at the weather channel…but how dare it rain on Renaissance Festival day!!! I mean the kids wait and plan all year for this occasion. And “mom called rain down from the heavens don’t ya know”. After much lamenting we set out to the art institute in “down town”.

Not an equal exchange I know.

I have not been to the DIA on a few years. It is absolutely beautiful! I have forgotten how overwhelming it can be to be so close to masterworks of art that are hundreds of years old. I can’t separate myself from my thoughts of the artist’s hands on the piece, the brush strokes manipulating the media… just an inch away from my close inspection. I wonder at the worn spots-how many hands have run across this section of alter railing over the last seven hundred years… The kids found it interesting. I think the last time I was there with the kids, “M” had one in a back and I had the other in a stroller. We left a trail of cheerios to find our way back to the main door at the end of the day.

I inserted an image of Gabriel the Archangel

(after whom I named my Gabriel).

The day turned out being worth the rain.

We will just have to hope for better weather next weekend.