Whooosh!

Making really good progress on the vest. I'd hoped to get the shoulders all bound off by end of yesterday. But Bruce and I were busy all day - after church we went with our friend G. over to The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.

There's an exhibit which opened last weekend, Sacred Arts and City Life. It's a very interesting exhibit about Novgorod the Great, which was a major town in Rus' due to being a trading outpost (and the oldest medieval city in Russia) before the ascendancy of Moscow under the tsar in 1478. Due to the property of the soil, which is able to preserve moistness due to a layer of clay, artifacts such as leather, wood, pieces of bark on which writings were etched, have been preserved, giving a unique look into life as lived during the medieval age. On displays were icons, from the 1200s all the way to the middle 16th century. You could see how the style of iconography changed as the years went on. It was really fascinating to see the early style, which one doesn't find much in icons nowdays. There is an admission charge - $10 for adults, but it's well worth it, especially to view other exhibits such as gothic and renaissance art, and to see examples of what one would have found in a wealthy Dutch home in 1640. I definitely plan to go back there again, especially to visit the museum shop once I have my cash flow started up again.