Museums we have known and loved

Started off the day at the Whitney museum. Their best show right now 
is works of Lyonel Feininger.  He was an American who lived in Germany 
and was considered a German expressionist. He was also a cartoonist 
and did some illustration.

We walked past Central Park trying to find the hawk Pale Male, but I now see why the books describe looking for them in the winter.  Hard to see high up on the apartments from across the street with the leafy trees.  So we gave up and took the crosstown bus to the Folk Art Museum.

  This used to be a 4 story museum down on 53rd next to MOMA, but which has moved over to Columbus near Lincoln Center.  Their entire display area consists of about 15 exquisite quilts.  They have a lot of stuff, especially a lot of quilts, but in fact, only have display area for about 15 at a time.  The picture is my favorite.  It was listed as a crazy quilt, but it's so much more.  The designer is Mary Ann Crocker Hinman, who I would suggest was more of an artist, but being a woman, was restricted to doing her art with quilts. 

grocery cart escalator

The rest of the day was a farmer's market, a trip to Trader Joe's (new in Manhattan last September).  It's a complete madhouse, and being Manhattan, it is on two floors, which means they have a separate escalator for the grocery cart.  I've never seen this before.  One of the clerks told us that when they opened this store, the former Californians who came in had tears in their eyes and were wild with excitement.  They don't have wine, though, because the archaic liqour laws of NY say that if you have a chain of stores, you can only have wine in one of them. 

lines in TJ's

So for the second night, we ate at home.  Amazing. 

Sorry I don't have anything more exciting