sarah in nyc

One of my favorite things to do is to go through a drive through car wash. Unfortunately, my husband and I only rent cars and my husband thinks that taking a rental car to a car wash is just plain stupid. No, I don't drive otherwise I would have indulged myself.  But Amarillo roads produce lots of road schmutz. Amarillo is also a place where people take pride in their cars. My son's car was in desperate need of a wash and he was kind enough to delay his visit to the car wash until my arrival. It was an excellent experience. Yesterday after doing a couple of loads of wash in the cleanest and most helpful laundromat I have ever experienced, we went off to the museum at Amarillo College. We were the only visitors. We got to see the Amarillo Biennial. The artists are all Texas based. There was lots of creativity on display. I took photos of some textile related works. This landscape rendered in traditional American hand weaving patterns was pretty spectacular. If you want I can go ...

Before I talk about our small adventures today I want to talk about the weather. Today we woke up to temperatures below freezing. We bundled up. We were over dressed. The temperature may be low but the air is dry and the sun is strong. We peeled off our layers.  Tomorrow is supposed to be in the high 70s. Apparently this sort of flip flopping is typical.  The Route 66 attractions in Amarillo span several blocks. There are restaurants and many vintage and antique shops. I wasn't able to take photos in the best of the shops, it wasn't permitted.  I did get to see several sets of spectacular sterling silver spurs. I had no idea that they could be so beautiful. The shop also had some pretty wonderful Southwestern silver. Another fabulous item I saw there was an Italian mid century modernist deviled egg platter. It was rectangular and presented the eggs as if they were jewels, along with matching salt and pepper shakers that fit into their fitted spaces.  I also saw one o...

 In the taxi on our way to the airport this ad showed up on the Taxi TV just about every three minutes.  The second time this afternoon turned up my husband pretended to be shocked by the existence of Dementia and an organization to help the demented. After that each time the add showed up we just laughed. We are easily amused. I always feel a little bit sad leaving New York.   We left as the sun was setting and our plane chased the sunset for about an hour. Friday mostly we took care of some not very interesting things but Friday night we went to shul with our son. It's a small but very warm community here. They are big believers in a meal after Friday night services so we got to know some of the lovely members of the synagogue as we ate dinner with them. A few years ago, before a different Texas trip, our son bought us a fat Texas guidebook. Their chapter on Amarillo basically said that there wasn't much to do here. We weren't willing to believe that. So far,we made a p...