I have a good friend I like to lunch with.
We try to pick places for lunch that we normally don't visit
and we try to make it an adventure.
This time we took advantage of Houston Restaurant Weeks.
Houston Restaurant Weeks runs the month of August
and benefits the Houston Food Bank.
Restaurants have special menus to pick from
and a donation from each meal is made to the food bank.
It's a win win.
Good food, a chance to go to a "new" restaurant and try out the food.
We went to Bistro Menil.
I had the roasted tomato and artichoke quiche
with the Menil salad followed by a lemon tart.
Yum!
Then we went across the street to the Menil museum to see the
Outsider Art (self-taught artists) exhibit
as Essential as Dreams.
I'm only sharing three objects from three different artists.
Twelve artists were featured in the exhibit.
On the left is Thornton Dial's Tiger On The Run
and on the right is one of Oscar Hardwiger's architectural structures --
this one of the Miraculous Staircase of the Loretto Chapel made when he was 80.
This is Spirit Codex by Solange Knopf.
The Menil has a wonderful bookstore that we did not visit.
There is a catalog for the exhibition and in my younger days
I would have loved a copy.
But I am now getting rid of all my old art catalogs.
It's hard, but better I do the work than leaving it to someone else.
I now wonder if there were postcards for the exhibit.
After all, postcards take up less space!
After lunch and the exhibit we made one more stop at Michaels.
We both wanted to check out the yarn.
Believe it or not, I didn't buy any.
I did look and I did touch but I kept telling myself I had enough yarn at home
and enough projects to finish.
I did make a wish list!
Wishing YOU well and much joy!
Mosaic Monday
Houston Restaurant Weeks runs the month of August
and benefits the Houston Food Bank.
Restaurants have special menus to pick from
and a donation from each meal is made to the food bank.
It's a win win.
Good food, a chance to go to a "new" restaurant and try out the food.
We went to Bistro Menil.
I had the roasted tomato and artichoke quiche
with the Menil salad followed by a lemon tart.
Yum!
Then we went across the street to the Menil museum to see the
Outsider Art (self-taught artists) exhibit
as Essential as Dreams.
I'm only sharing three objects from three different artists.
Twelve artists were featured in the exhibit.
On the left is Thornton Dial's Tiger On The Run
and on the right is one of Oscar Hardwiger's architectural structures --
this one of the Miraculous Staircase of the Loretto Chapel made when he was 80.
This is Spirit Codex by Solange Knopf.
The Menil has a wonderful bookstore that we did not visit.
There is a catalog for the exhibition and in my younger days
I would have loved a copy.
But I am now getting rid of all my old art catalogs.
It's hard, but better I do the work than leaving it to someone else.
I now wonder if there were postcards for the exhibit.
After all, postcards take up less space!
After lunch and the exhibit we made one more stop at Michaels.
We both wanted to check out the yarn.
Believe it or not, I didn't buy any.
I did look and I did touch but I kept telling myself I had enough yarn at home
and enough projects to finish.
I did make a wish list!
Wishing YOU well and much joy!
Mosaic Monday
