Today, i was summoned to go to V-town and work for my brother, Eric, while he drove to North Carolina. I, being the faithfully loving little sister, immediately dropped everything in Fredericksburg, told everyone i was off to Hogwarts, and come home. Well, tomorrow I shall be working, hopefully putting some Christmas display window ideas into action, and then heading back with the story that Snape was too mean, and the sorting hat told me I didn't really belong anywhere, not even Hufflepuff. (A Note: Hufflepuff is my FAVORITE house, even though everyone makes fun of it. If i had been J.K.Rowling, I would have made the protagonist a Hufflepuff. Or at least mentioned them in the books more often.)
But today was a fabulous day of having no plans, just me and my favorite person ever, (brother Eric), downtown on the mall, checking out the Smithsonian museums. It's so wonderful that they're so close to home, i feel like I don't take advantage of the fact enough. Anyway, we went to see the Norman Rockwell paintings, which were WONDERFUL. We also saw Arcimboldo's paintings, where he created portraits out of people using fruit and vegetables and other such things. Those were inspiring. I'll probably be attempting a portrait made entirely out of cats or something soon.
Then Eric and I went to the Natural History Museum because that museum is too good to ever pass by, and Eric wanted to see the Underwater exhibit. We also saw dinosaurs. I had to keep telling myself i wasn't five anymore and it's not appropriate for me to walk around thinking I'm a t-rex while I'm in that room.
We also went to the relatively new Mammal installment, which is pretty cute. They had all these baby animals, so fluffy and adorable that I now want a pet baby black bear. Eric and I saw the Zebras, and under them, a "discovery point" for children. It showed a picture of zebras and asked the question, "How many zebras can you find?"
To which Eric responded with another question,
"Why does it matter?"
He continued, "A lion is just going to eat one, he doesn't care how many there are. Lion is just going to pick off the weakest, so them all looking the same has no function. Unless, of course, one of the Zebra's was a murderer, trying to blend in for trial or something."
Yeah zebras, we're on to you.
If I had tried to create images of people using fruit and veggies there would be just boring naked people because I would have gotten hungry, of course. Then my art would no longer be original because naked people art is everywhere.
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