Because of the change in plans and some pre-existing reservations, our time in Menlo Park was short. We arrived June 8th and departed June 14th, with much reorganizing, packing, planning, etc., done. Nonetheless we enjoyed a variety of outings with Rebecca and family, the Legion of Honor museum in San Francisco, a nice IMAX film in San Jose, and a day and overnight with Penelope at Gilroy Gardens.
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| San Francisco's Legion of Honor Museum |
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What attracted us was an exhibition of artifacts from Pompeii;
some we'd seen before, some definitely not; here, foodstuffs |
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An old friend from the National Archaeological
Museum in Naples |
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| Love that Roman glass |
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Definitely new to us: most of the "bodies" you seen from Pompeii
are really "bodies in negative," so to speak...cavities in the ash
later filled it as a mold; this woman's body never decayed, for
whatever reason, and was preserved intact
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From the larger collection, Bouguereau's The
Broken Pitcher, 1891 |
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| And Alma-Tadema's A Coign of Vantage, 1895 |
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| Views from the museum grounds |
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| Ruins of Sutro Baths |
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| California Beach |
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| With Penelope at Les Jardins de Gilroy |
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| She now definitely of the age that enjoys wild rides |
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| She's up there somewhere; Vicki and I are not |
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| Whizzing by; ditto |
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