• Midwinter Tropics…on a winter’s day

    As I alluded to in a previous post, I enjoy visiting the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston during our nasty Massachusetts winters. As a matter of fact, on the recent day that I went to the museum I rode my bike to the commuter rail station on a particularly cold and windy day. But…

  • A Tale of Two Gardner Museums

    A catchy title, eh? But like Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, I’ve cobbled together disparate elements to make a (hopefully) greater whole. Actually, to be truthful, I’m just plain lazy 😎, but both museums do deal with America during the 19th and early 20th centuries. There is of course the world famous Isabella Stewart…