Traveler's Beauty in New Haven

Desitnation has become the point of travel, not the traveling. Except if you disembark the train in New Haven. Union Station is full of beauty, grace, and a grand beginning to the Yale art museums awating you for a day's excursion.

It's not Paris, but American Grand for Amtrak and Metro North.

 More to come- Linnie

19th c. Copy of 15th Century Icon--How Valuable in 21st?

Purchased by the English tourists in Forrester novels, the Room-with-a-View crowd came home with Fra Angelico imitations, complete with carved gilt wood frames.
Found in a CT antique shop, Woodbury (located on Rt7 north of I-84) is the Antiques Mecca nearest NYC.
How much did he pay?
Send me your guess...
- Linnie

Jung's Red Book and Fra Angelico (above)

Husband hits the birthday lotto! I received a 19th century Florentine copy of Fra Angelico's trumpting angel, complete with gothic gilt frame, AND the first publishing of Jung's complete journal of his spiritual journey---"his largest and most important work, unsequestered and translated after five decades."

Happiness...years of joy.

Olana Above the Hudson

One hundred miles upriver from Miss Liberty sits the Moroccan fantasy of painter Frederick Church, whose paintings and estate are of the grandest scale. Famous in the Hudson School of Painting, he is best remembered for the monstrous Niagra Falls which he accompanied around the world several times, paying for Olana with ease. (Now owned by Brooklyn Museum of Art but mostly loaned out for the $)

A National Trust site, plan for the day and a picnic. Bring your paints. Just off the NY State Thruway, and Leeds has a good diner if it rains.

More to come- Linnie

When I Lived in New York...

New York is thousands of neighborhoods. We love the City but we live in our neighborhoods. As I travel buses, trains and planes, the former NYers next to me swoon about the old neighborhood.

Original art of your street will be a good investment. Lifelong. Support your neighborhood artist.

More to come- Linnie