Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Shine On, Shine On...

...Harvest Moon.

We held our annual Harvest Moon Ball last week (one of the four annual dances we have here).

This is the Ivy Room (our activities room) starting to get dressed up for the party.


And here we are getting the party started. That's Ray Kasl at the keyboard, who brings an entire orchestra with him. We couldn't see the orchestra, but we could hear it.
On the right is Sarah. She's either growing an extra hand or is dancing with a resident. I vote for the extra hand because we could use one around here.


We got dressed up (You can't see me because I'm taking the pictures, but I'm actually wearing my $3800 Bottega Veneta suit. Or maybe it was just a tie with pictures of cows on it.), danced the night away, sang along, and were treated to donuts and hot, spiced cider. (It was spiced, not spiked.)












Veterans Day

Last week we recognized our veterans at Stone Gardens with a moving ceremony. Each vet got a moment to say a few words and tell us his or her branch of service, rank and where they served. The ceremony also included readings, patriotic songs and a video tribute to our men and women in uniform.



There are two women at Stone Gardens who are vets.



This is one well-loved vet!




We have many extraordinary men and women here at Stone Gardens and we are profoundly grateful to all of them, our staff members, and all of our family members and readers of this blog who served our country.

Monday, November 15, 2010

We were privileged last week to have had a visit from concert violinist Yvonne Hsueh (pronounced like Shoe) from Oregon. She was in town to play pieces from the movie Schindler's List with members of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra in Columbus, and here at The Temple - Tifereth Israel (a.k.a. Silver's Temple) in commemoration of the anniversary of Kristallnacht. She was looking for places to play while in town, and Cantor Kathy Sebo put her in touch with us!

She was accompanied by Eric Charnofsky from the Cleveland Institute of Music.




Friday, November 12, 2010

Contest Winner

Congratulations to Ellen Botnick for getting every single one of the answers to the Name the Painting and Artists contest correct! Ellen won a pair of movie tickets.

Here are her answers (you can scroll down tot he blog post below to see the pictures. If you are getting this as a subscription and are not on the actual blog site, you can get there by clicking here):
1. Monet - Water Lilies
2. Degas - Frieze of Dancers
3. Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - Summer
4. Van Gogh - The Large Plane Trees
5. Picasso - La Vie
6. Jackson Pollock - November 5th 1950
7. Krasner - Celebration (Pollock's wife)

Congratulations again to Ellen.

Keep watching this spot for more contests and fun.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Warning: This Blog Contains Nudity!

Well, not really. But, look closely and you'll see what I mean.

This blog post IS a contest, however. With real prizes.

These are photos from our recent trip to the Cleveland Museum of Art. I was going to cite the artists and picture titles as you scrolled down, but what fun would that be? (I mean, for me...it wouldn't be fun. It would be work.) I thought it would be more fun to see who amongst our readers and residents can correctly name the most pictures and artists. The winner will get a pair of movie tickets. There will be one pair for our on-line winner, and one pair for a winner from inside the building (I will print out the pictures for those without Internet).

Send me your answers at nbudin@menorahpark.org. You'll have until Monday, Nov. 8th, 12 noon EST. The email with the most correct answers and the earliest time stamp will be the winner.

So, do you know your Monet from your Manet? Get ready...GO!

Here's our good looking group getting ready to explore the galleries.


Here's our resident artist Hy Snell looking at a famous painting. I think there's enough of it visible in this picture for you to identify. This is #1:


This is one of my favorite paintings (and a pretty good resident, too!). This is #2:


I hope you can see enough of this one. If you know your art at all, you should be able to at least be able to identify the genre. (Oh, and there might be nudity in this painting). It's #3:


OK. At least give me the artist for these two. The one on the right is #4:


Here's more nudity. #5:


This is Super Volunteer Arlyne with a resident. There is no painting to identify here.


I love this artist. It's not to everyone's taste, but this one of my favorites in this museum. And no, your children can not make paintings like this. If they could, they would be hanging in a museum. The pictures, not your children. #6:


Here's the last one. I've included a second shot with more of the painting visible. Extra points if you can tell me the relationship between the last one, #6, and this one, #7:



So, there are seven paintings in all to identify - Title and Artist. Remember, send me as much information as you can about each one by Monday, November 8, 12:00 noon, and you could win movie tickets! Good Luck!