the delightful and charming ms. westra and i took a drive up to the adirondack museum this past sunday to enjoy terms like "rustic" and "dioramas." easy to get to? take the northway up to warrensburg, take a left, and drive for an hour. beautiful country.
the adirondack museum loves its dioramas. and i'm not talking about those chintzy, life-sized ones. never liked them, personally. but those minatures? true works of art.
now, i was about to blow the lid off the cover-up and expose the adirondack museum for its rash of swastikas everywhere - suddenly the bearded fellas who were in the museum with us took on a slightly more menacing tone - but just as i was about to go siphon gas from the car with which to burn down the place and its nazi-coddling, we found a sign next to this chair that told patrons that the swastika is actually an ages old symbol to many religions meaning things like goodness, long life, etc, but was unfortunately copped by the nazis and turned into a symbol of hate, fear, and a tiny little failed dickweed painter. suddenly the bearded fellas who were in the museum with us looked as harmless as weekend woodworkers.
i learn stuff in the one-room schoolhouse. the history book went from the pyramids of egypt up to "the world war." if you want a really good challenge, skip the cup-and-ball games out front and try the stilts. i took to them like a fish out of water.that's what i said. a fish out of water.
the charming and delightful ms. westra catches a stuffed fish with a magnet in an ice fishing shed. there was an education center that was as boring and sterile as the name implies, but this area here was for the kids and had lots of hands on stuff: a sand pit that asked you to try on some snow shoes and see what it's like to stomp around in them; the bobsled you see below that illustrated the winter olympics' trip to nearby lake placid in 1932; and a rock climbing wall that really didn't seem to have any other purpose than getting the charming and delightful ms. westra and i to giggle at each other while posing in painful positions on the wall.
bobsledding. we've almost outrun ms. westra's purse.
blue mountain lake. if you look closely, you can see the cottages on the little island in the middle of the lake; i pronounce here that some day i will live like that.