Fenimore art

The artwork out behind the Fenimore Art Museum was just as fascinating as what was inside. Sue and Joe picked a perfect weekend to visit. I was worried there would be no color left when they got here, but it was actually a perfect leaf-peeping time to come. And warm enough that it did not feel like October in Upstate NY.

One of the 2 main exhibits, Pete Souza: Two Presidents One Photographer, was a different kind of view inside the White House during the Reagan and Obama years. It takes a good photographer to remove the politics, pomp, and party nonsense to see 2 very different men in power acting very much the same.

The American Folk Art exhibit on the first floor had a 19th-century silk quilt which I could have stared at for hours. Just imagining all the garments that produced those colorful strips of silk...

And when we were done wandering the grounds behind the Fenimore, the site of James Fenimore Cooper's estate on Otsego Lake, we did a second wander around Brookwood Point, also on the lake. All in all, a good day for art and wandering.