Visited our friends George, Cecille and Peri / Perry / Peris (all 5 of them) this past weekend, in Pasadena. We were treated to a weekend of sightseeing and culinary indulgence. We visited The Huntington, one of those glorious country homes filled with treasures available only to the fabulously rich or government-funded. Rooms choc full of Gainsboroughs, original manuscripts (Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Samuel Johnson's original Oxford Dictionary, and an original version of Audubon's Birds of America that would make my favorite ornithologist - that's YOU, Bill Eley - very happy). I bought a Johnson bio at the bookstore, but now need to buy "Samuel Johnson's Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master". Sounds like my kind of read. So, dodge the paparazzi next time you're in LA, and chill out at The Huntington
Monday, August 10, 2009
RAVE - The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens - Pasadena
Visited our friends George, Cecille and Peri / Perry / Peris (all 5 of them) this past weekend, in Pasadena. We were treated to a weekend of sightseeing and culinary indulgence. We visited The Huntington, one of those glorious country homes filled with treasures available only to the fabulously rich or government-funded. Rooms choc full of Gainsboroughs, original manuscripts (Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Samuel Johnson's original Oxford Dictionary, and an original version of Audubon's Birds of America that would make my favorite ornithologist - that's YOU, Bill Eley - very happy). I bought a Johnson bio at the bookstore, but now need to buy "Samuel Johnson's Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master". Sounds like my kind of read. So, dodge the paparazzi next time you're in LA, and chill out at The Huntington
