Thursday 06/18/2026
Today was a long-planned “Monet get-away”. We hopped in the car at 9 and drove to the De Young Museum in the City to view the “Monet in Venice” exhibit. This was a very well-organized museum show. The point was to show the 25-plus paintings that Claude Monet had made of the city of Venice on his one visit there in 1908. However, the curators had set up a learning experience: they had works by other artists who had been inspired by Venice before Monet, with explanations of the different techniques each had used. Canaletto, Whistler, Sargent, famous artists’ vacation snaps, well, no, elaborate paintings, of the famous city. Then finally you get to a hall with the Monet paintings.
On the way home I was thinking about when Marian and I spent a week in Venice in May, 1999. I’ve got pictures of Venice, I’m thinking. So in the afternoon I looked them up. Here’s one Monet would have liked, because he really dug reflections in water:
For lunch last November (6.351) on a similar outing, we had eaten at the Foghorn Taproom, 7th and Irving. Today for fun we walked to Um.Ma, a Korean BBQ place on 9th near Irving. Pretty good, although we had never heard of a lot of things on the menu.
Came on home for a quiet afternoon. We met again at 5:30 for a planned dinner with Karen and David. They had just had a long trip through Spain and southern France and we, well I mostly, wanted to hear about it. Pleasant meal with nice people.
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