We're in Lexington, KY and I'm having a devil of a time staying connected so I'm hurrying. It took us 14 hours in the rain and the traffic to drive down here yesterday and that's why I missed a day posting. I've written today and yesterday's prompt and I'll put them on here. I'd make two entries but I have no confidence in this motel's wireless.
October 9--Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, detail. She doesn't have any eyebrows, you know. I never really noticed it before but she doesn't. Usually you're not allowed to get very close to her. She's been stolen before, you know, so they keep people pretty far away. People have wondered for years about her. Legend says that Leonardo never delivered the portrait to the person who commissioned it, but kept it with him until his death. Either that means he loved her or he thought it was his best work and couldn't part with it. Or maybe he thought it was crap and spent the rest of his life trying to fix it. No one will ever know the truth of it, but that doesn't stop the expert and the not-so-expert from propounding theory after theory.
Eh.
October 10--Egon Schiele, Landscape at Krumau. The streets were so narrow that Lisa felt like the old buildings were leaning in, looming over her like giants. The uneven cobbles were like traps that caught at her feet making her stumble. She had left her tour group at the foot of the main street. They were heading toward yet another gray stone church with tiny windows up high in the walls that kept out more light than they let in. She had heard there was a little linen shop in the town that sold handmade lace tablecloths. Her sister was getting remarried in a few months and she decided that a lace tablecloth would be just the thing for a second wedding gift. But she was lost in the gray stone maze of the town and it was time to get back on the bus.
Duh-duh-dun.
We had a blast at the harness races today. I didn't win much but we sure had fun.
--Barbara
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