HOME AGAIN

We're back in Sacramento.  It was a wonderful trip and we had lots of fun.  It's good to be home, though, and the weather has been wonderfully cool which has truly been nice after how hot it was in New York.  Even though we live on a busy street, it is also much quieter here.  You don't notice it all the time in NY, but when you leave, you realize how it was never even remotely quiet.  Even in the apartment with theAC on, you could hear the AC, and you could hear the great big AC that cools the gigantic building next door.  Martha's building is old so everyone has window air conditioners.  The building next door, which is 23 stories high and must have about 10 apartments per floor, has central air, so it makes a lot of noise, and puts out a lot of heat on the return vent in the sidewalk. 

Anyway, we have been trying to be a little less on

the couch potato side since we got back.  Thursday

Tim and Lynda were showing at a trunk show at the

Crocker as part of their Thursday Art Nights, so we

went over there. 





The event was really pretty nice. 

We had dinner at the cafe and they had a really

good band that played big band music, some swing,

a little jazz, and a little early 60s rock.  

And then, amazingly enough, we dragged ourselves off the couch

again tonight and went off to see a few galleries at Second Saturday.  I

met an old co-worker from the Legislature at a gallery we had never

visited before, but which I definitely want to visit again.  Loved the

work of Jeffrey Devore.  Here's one of his pictures from the Temporary Contemporary Gallery website, but he had lots of works there, and most of them had many more figures.   They were really quite wonderful.  A lot of them were of places in Sacramento, and I almost thought I'd see myself schlepping through them with my backpack and floppy t-shirt.  He seems to have chosen hipper people than I to use in his paintings, however.  Of course that could be me waiting for the bus.

Also went to Blue Moon, Fe, and Fouts Galleries. 

We have totally learned to stay away from the 20th St. galleries we used to like to ride our bikes to, because there are just too many people who aren't interested in art but just in partying.