herbiehancock

On Sunday this past weekend, we traveled to the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio to hear my son and his girlfriend play with the Toledo Youth Orchestra.  There is a lovely theater within the museum known as the  Peristyle  where they play.  My husband’s mother and stepfather joined us there for the concert.    Before the concert started, we had some time to spare, so we wandered around the museum to look at some of the exhibits.  No signs were posted saying that taking photographs was prohibited.  I know some museums don’t allow this while others have no rules against it. I thought I’d take a few pictures and see if anyone tried to stop me. (Sometimes it is easier to just apologize later rather than to ask permission beforehand.)  :-D I took three or four pictures of some pieces that I particularly liked, then we came to this painting which is one of my husband’s favorites at the museum.   It is huge.  It covers a whole wal...

This past Sunday I traveled to Toledo, Ohio to the Peristyle Theater of the Toledo Museum of Art to hear my younger son play the upright bass as part of the Toledo Youth Sinfonietta. It was an exciting day. In the photo above is the program booklet which has MY son's name in it. ( Yes, I'm boasting and grinning. Thank you for reading this and kindly indulging a mother's pride. ) This is what the stage looked like before the musicians came out on it. Click on this link: Peristyle Theater , to see a view of the inside of the theater from the rear of the auditorium taken by a photographer who obviously knows what he is doing. It is a spectacular place. The members of the Sinfonietta made sure their instruments were tuned and spent some time warming up before the concert started. My son was second chair upright bass. He is the one standing second from the right with the glasses and red hair in the photos below . The concert is about to start. I made videos of the song...