A couple of old people at the protestOn Sunday we went to the Iraq War demonstration. It was my first outing in a long while. We observed for a bit, and listened to unintelligible verbiage blasting forth from loud speakers. It was a good age mix, lots of older types like ourselves who had marched against the Viet Nam war, and lots of younger types, around the age of our children.
When we had enough of not being able to understand the speeches, we went to the Portland Art Museum to see the Chinese exhibition of tomb objects from the Han Dynasty. It was beautiful. There were a couple of large horses there that displayed a lot more personality than any of the people that were depicted. The objects had been collected by the Schnitzer family. David, Howard, and I speculated what the Schnitzer mansion must look like if it could easily contain this collection.
We also went to see the Edward Elliot photograph exhibit, which is there until April 29th. His career spanned 50+ years. He had a magnificent eye. There was a lot of humor in the photographs. He was also reminiscent of Diane Arbus. And he had a great love of foolish dogs. I really liked his dog pictures.
When we had enough of not being able to understand the speeches, we went to the Portland Art Museum to see the Chinese exhibition of tomb objects from the Han Dynasty. It was beautiful. There were a couple of large horses there that displayed a lot more personality than any of the people that were depicted. The objects had been collected by the Schnitzer family. David, Howard, and I speculated what the Schnitzer mansion must look like if it could easily contain this collection.
We also went to see the Edward Elliot photograph exhibit, which is there until April 29th. His career spanned 50+ years. He had a magnificent eye. There was a lot of humor in the photographs. He was also reminiscent of Diane Arbus. And he had a great love of foolish dogs. I really liked his dog pictures.
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