Gracious Living is the Finest Art

Wandering Through an Art Museum

While on campus to pick up Brennan

last week, I stopped in to the Art Museum

at Ball State University.

I have a degree in Fine Art.

So I sometimes feel I have spent

half of my life roaming through museums.

I find art to be a very personal

thing and I like to go through

a museum by myself and meet

up with my companions at the

end of my visit.

Generally I can only spend about

an hour in a museum or it all starts

to become a blur.  There are times,

though, when I go by myself and

get lost in the Met or the Frick for

a good part of the day.

Munich, Germany ~ Day 2

A Busy Day in Munich

Today was a bitterly cold yet beautifully sunny day.  We had snow last night and as the sun came through the trees it made everything look like it had been sprinkled with glitter.

We visited Schloss Nymphenburg today.  This is where the royals would go to escape Munich.  It is only a short tram ride from the city center and you probably could walk to it in 30 minutes from the center of town.

The Baroque Palace is the birthplace of Ludwig II.

The palaces of this area were built with elaborate waterways so the royals could travel from one palace to another by water.  They brought in gondoliers from Venice and in many of the paintings you can see the gondolas.

When not traveling by water, they had other elaborate means of transport.

In the afternoon we toured the Royal Residence.  It seemed to be a never ending tour of gilded rooms, elaborate furniture and grand paintings.

We would not recommend touring both of these sites in one day but since we only have a limited time here we are trying to see as much as possible.

After a dinner of goulash and yes, yes, some more wurst,

 we headed home happily exhausted.