I spent the day at the Crystal Bridges Art Museum, bouncing from exhibit to exhibit and taking a guided tour. Despite having worked on an Art Education program as the only person on the development team with a fine art degree, a lot of the works were unfamiliar to me and there were a lot of pleasant discoveries. I also got to see some old favorites by Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell in person, as well as spending a lot of time gazing at the Georgia O'Keeffe painting that prompted my visit.
I bought a big print of that last to hang in my bathroom where there's some unsightly brickwork. But at least I talked myself down from a beautiful table lamb with a reproduction of The Lantern Bearers as an oval shade by asking myself how much I'd love it with Molly peeking out through the holes she'd have torn in it.
Driving out of and back into Eureka Springs via the western route was a thrilling adventure in its own right. The Ozark Mountains are beautiful, but the roads are like a roller coaster built from blueprints hand-drawn by Katharine Hepburn. I got a good idea of what living inside a snow globe would be like thanks to all the loose maps and papers in my car, and found out that while I enjoy "Don't You Want Me Baby?" "Crazy On You," and "Cecelia" individually, they don't make for a good mash-up.