Hello friends!

We made another trip to one of our favorite destinations:  Baltimore.  This time we were celebrating my son’s 9th birthday.  We knew a trip to the Maryland Science Center would be perfect for our scientist-to-be son.

We were so fortunate that it happened to be the opening day of the da Vinci exhibit.  This exhibit is said to be the largest, most comprehensive traveling exhibit (the largest stays in Italy of course).  I think we could have stayed for hours… it was incredibly fascinating.  I learned so much in such a short time about da Vinci, and now I want to do some additional reading and learn more.  There was so much information alone on Mona Lisa…who stole her and for how long….what the painting must have looked like originally…did she have eyelashes and eyebrows, or not?  Looking back, I realize how lucky I was to see this painting in person at the Louvre.

Mona Lisa's smile

Here are a few pictures from the day…oh what glorious weather it was!!  I’ve converted the pictures to black and white while doing one of this week’s Visual Poetry projects.  I can’t believe how much I’ve learned….before I would simply “remove color” in Photoshop Elements.  I didn’t adjust for saturation, contrast, or brightness settings.  A few simple adjustments really leads to a much more depth…thank you, Susan!!

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