On The Way Home!

 

It is time to start heading home. Checking my maps, I will be traveling along the southern edge of the Great Lakes. But look!! Just a few miles north of the freeway, is the hamlet of Detroit! I've only been to a few concerts in Detroit (Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin), back in the day, perhaps it is time to actually visit the area.

But first, perhaps I should stop in Cooperstown, home of the Baseball National Hall of Fame. I haven't really been a fan of baseball since Tony Oliva and Zoilo Versailles left the Twins back in the mid 70s. So instead I went to the Fenimore Art Museum, known for it's folk art collection.

Old Schoolhouse in Summer
Emily Pettigrew

Mother and Child in Boat (quite the imaginative name)
Mary Cassatt
There was a large Mary Cassatt exhibit - not folk art

Seated Girl With Strawberries
Joshua Johnson(America's 1st professional African American portrait painter)

Charles E. & Octavia C. Adams
William Matthew Prior

Is it me or does it seem that folk artists seem to paint very large heads on their subjects?

It seems you can't have folk art without weathervanes

Score!  A Georgia O'Keeffe!

Detroit and the surrounding area has tons of stuff to do, history, culture, nature – a real plethora of activities. After much thought, I guess I am just sort of tuckered out. I spent four days, hanging around the campground with only one field trip out. The campground had many seasonal campers. I think many families used this campground as their lake place. The campground had a walking trail that surrounded the lake. The big draw besides the ice cream (Dark Chocolate Raspberry Truffle), were the bouncy toys. I have never seen so many giant bouncy toys all in one place.

My hike around the lake

Ninja Warrior's Bouncy House

The start of the Ninja Warrior extravaganza

Bouncy stuff in the water

A casualty! Something scraped me down to the wood. 
Don't know how it happened, I know my driving could not have caused this. 
Good thing I had my Eternabond to save the day. 

I was out doing my blog on the picnic table.  This little guy with super big eyes wanted to be friends. 
I would move him away and everytime he would come back.  He was tiny but mighty.

Ok, so I guess I had one more museum in me

Kahlil Gibran was a Leabanese American
who wrote The Prophet, one of the best selling books of all time

At first I thought this was a picture of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca but no...The black cube is a magnet encircled by thousands of iron filings.  As the magnet is turned, the iron forms patterns.

Rajie Cook was a Palestinian American. 
 Cook is internationally known for creating symbols seen in public buildings and airports.

 

Guernica in Gaza
Rajie Cook
Inspired by Picasso's anti-war painting guernica (1937)
which draws attention to the horrors and human costs of war

 

Located behind the Arab American Museum was an Arab grocery store, about half the size of a Costco, in other words...huge.  So many fruits, vegetables and other groceries of which I had absolutely no idea what they were.  It was quite the treat to shop there.