FRIENDS ACTING STUPID

     And now we pause from our regularly scheduled grown-up, thoughtful, literary content to bring you a photo retrospective of what happens when three women who have known each other for almost 40 years and share a mutual delight in idiotic behavior get together and visit the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, as Ann, Jocie and I did last Sunday.
     First of all, the Grounds for Sculpture is a beautiful natural site.  Just as one example, here are two photos of stands of weeping blue atlas cedar:

and here's me, grooving on nature:

 

       But there are also sculptures:

 

 

  

     and more sculptures:

And lots and lots of sculptures by Seward Johnson, heir of Johnson & Johnson and apparently the unofficial Kitschy Sculptor Laureate of New Jersey:

 

 

and for perspective:

 

 

 

And you know Renoir's The Boating Party, right?

 

 

 

 

Well, Here's Seward Johnson's take on it (the water in the background is real):

 

 





     But of course, the most important feature of the Grounds for Sculpture is the aptly-titled Friends Acting Stupid.

 

 



 

 

     It was a lovely day.