Vaccinations are rolling out, variants rampant, summer days hot in one country and damp in the other. What are stay-at-home wonder | wander | women to do? Read, rest, write and learn!
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| Robin in the garden, watercolours in Paperblanks notebook |
back and forth conversations and collaborations through the years
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Thursday, August 19, 2021
Tokyo 2020 Olympics | Kimono Project
After six years, Japan reveals the 213 specially created kimonos depicting the nature, culture, and history of each representative nation participating at the Tokyo Olympics.
some of the stunning kimonos
Despite the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all 213 kimonos and obis were displayed in a special exhibition at "Musée du Kimono" at the Kyoto Kyocera Museum of Art in October, 2020.
Thursday, August 12, 2021
summer eating for damp days
This summer in London has been a rollercoaster. wonder | wander | women are all turned around between sunny summer days and wet rainy days...and often sun and rain chase each other in a single day. This has made the garden mushrooms pretty happy.
Thursday, August 5, 2021
elemental mineral kingdom
The Allison and Roberto Mignone Hall of Gems and Minerals is part of the American Museum of Natural History since the Seventies. It closed in 2017 to be redesigned as one of its 150th anniversary projects. Its grand opening was delayed and pushed back to June 12, 2021 because of the pandemic.
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| in front of one of two gargantuan amethyst geodes |
New York City in the time of COVID is the perfect poster child for pandemic protocols. As the most populous city and a major gateway of the world on the East Coast, NYC was one of the first in the United States to be hardest hit by this global pandemic.
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| museum façade |
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