Deb had her first big outing today. We went downtown Windsor this afternoon for coffee, and a long walk along the riverfront. We followed up with a visit to Fred's Farm Fresh Market, and came home. She was pretty tired, but she survived. Her next outing will be Wednesday, when we see her surgeon for a post-op check-up. I'm sure he will be happy with her progress. She is off the pain meds now, and we are keeping up the ice and light arm exercises 4x each day. The sling only comes off for a few minutes each time.
Deb's Criterion movie choice this week was a Harold Lloyd feature called "Movie Crazy." Though I prefer him and his style of humour in the shorter films, this one is pretty funny.
A talking feature film from 1931.
Harold Hall is from small town Kansas, and he heads to Hollywood to become an actor. He has sent his photo in and received a positive response from Planet Pictures, asking him to come out for a screen test. Of course the wrong photo was sent; the studio is expecting a good looking hunk of man, and instead they get Harold. Like the shorter films, this one has a continuous series of sight gags, pratfalls, and misfortunes. In this case, running jokes can be kept going longer, such as the one that has to do with a straw hat. Constance Cummings is completely amazing, playing two roles to keep Harold confused. He falls in love with her Spanish movie star persona. She has befriended Harold in her normal persona, but uses her other self to test his love and loyalty to her. Anyway, it's a recommended pic to see, as are all of his shorter films.
And now I finally get to resume my DIA studies. Today's artist is Gherardo Cibo (Italian, 1512-1600). He was not a professional artist, but an amateur botanist. His minor drawing in the museum's collection (one of two) reminds us of nature studies by Leonardo and Durer. There is no background, just the oddly shaped shrubs and trees, very delicately depicted in pen and ink.
Cibo's "Study of Trees," 1568-1570, 5" x 8". Brush and red ink with white highlights, on blue paper. The inscription reads "trees beneath the woods Cesane Dalla Civita."
I'm sure there aren't too many blogs out there with Harold Lloyd and Cibo in the same entry. One never knows in these pages. In other news, some farmers are finally out in their fields. It hasn't rained in three days now! However, it is supposed to rain a lot tonight and tomorrow. Hoping they can get a lot done before then.
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