VERMONT: Mystery Date Night

For or weekly mystery date night I chose a night visit to the tallest file cabinet in the world in Burlington on Flynn Avenue West of Pine Street.

Then dinner at A Single Pebble restaurant on Bank Street in Burlington. They gave us a single shiny pebble with our bill and I asked if I took the pebble, would they have to change the name of the restaurant?

Lastly, a drive down a dirt road to try to see the lake under a stunning moon.

VERMONT: Charlotte: Needleworks Crafts, By appointment Only

Vermont: Painting Quad

Napoleana

Quotes from Napolean that apply quite well to Maya's outlook on life:

...never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Maya (scratch - "A soldier") will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon Bonaparte

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Napoleon Bonaparte

An army marches on its stomach.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I have only one counsel for you - be master.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I made all my generals out of mud.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Medicines are only fit for old people.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon Bonaparte

One must change one's tactics every ten minutes (scratch "years") if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte


Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Maya (scratch - "The French") complain of everything, and always.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Vermont: Lula the Tattoo Artist and Friends

Danville, Vermont

We visited Sasha, Oliver, Harriet and Jim at their Vermont summer home. It was a very beautiful converted school house. We discovered our cars both just past 200,000 miles - cause to celebrate! Ice cream tomorrow.

Mermaid Parade

Lula & Maya pick the groceries

These are the items the girls picked out from the super market. Salami, sushi, apple sauce, animal cookies, corn and cayenne popcorn. There were a couple of other suggestions that were nixed.

NYC: Central Park Tradition meets Technology

Zoë: May I take your photograph with you holding your cell phones?

Three Jewish Guys sort of upset: WHY??!!

Zoë: Because the juxtaposition of tradition and technology is so great!

Three Jewish Guys: Well, OK.

NYC: Great Mothers Day

On Mothers Day I got to sleep in. Then Rob made breakfast of eggs, bacon and toast AND cleaned up the dishes.

By noon I was getting cabin fever so I suggested to we go to Central Park. First we stopped at the plaza hotel to visit the painting of Eloise like I always did when I was a kid. Then just because I've never done this, I suggested we go on a horse and carriage ride through Central Park. $34 for 20 minutes. Then we followed Maya as she lead us on a loop through the park. We stopped at a playground, climbed a big rock, listened to some live music, walked past Strawberry field... We were going to go boating but I decided that since we were running out of time we might be better off going to eat at one of my recent favorite restaurants - Fatty Crab's - Malaysian food. It reminds me a little bit of Singaporean cuisine.

Chinatown

 This little inconspicuous store has lots of fun treats including stainless steel lunch boxes, dried fruits, black bean sauce and noodles.

NYC: Lula's Mothers Day Ghost Story Painting

Ghost Story by Lula Barracano.

 

There was a ghost drinking blood and the ghost was a girl.  She was wearing pink clothes and she was walking to the playground with her kid.  Her kid was named Charlotte and they walked up the stairs to the playground and then her and her kid were heading home after the playground and then when they got home they made some lemonade blood.  It was pink.

Their house, on the inside of it, is covered with pink blood.

 

And they had pink flowers on the pink blood.

 

And then they ran to the F playground by Aunt Josephine’s.

The end.

NYC: TriBeCa Film Festival

After watching everyone else in SoHo go to TriBeCa film festival parties, I got the bug and told Rob that I wanted to go to one too.

He told me to call Isen who invited us to go with him that night. There was also a Belvedere Vodka party on the ground floor of our building that I got invited to since we live here - but we ran out of time to go to that one. The TriBeca party started at 10pm and was in SoHo. We went promptly at ten but were told they weren't ready yet (my sleepy clock was ticking). I introduced myself to the door men Jeff and Christian and when we returned there was a crowd but they waved us to the front. By chance we ran into two friends of Rob's and I got to pull them in with us. I felt so IN. The party had LIVE artists painting and haircuts (extremely slow ones). The music was fun and the drinks - as long as they were alcoholic, were free. I had a blast. We asked a guy doing an event photog gig brianparkphoto.com into taking a photo of us. Afterall, its not often that I get dressed up to go out these days.