Friday 8th August (again)

This morning I was writing about yesterday, tonight I am catching up and writing about today.

At the hospital this morning I divided my time between my chaplaincy round and Pattisue who was waiting in the Cancer Centre for a blood test to determine if she needed a transfusion, which she did.

I had a nap in the afternoon and this evening went to a Reception and Talk on the current exhibition at the Museum of Art on St Gregory's campus.

This is something I copied and pasted about the founder of the Museum.

Rev.Gregory Gerrer, a monk of St. Gregory’s Abbey, set out just after the turn of the century to create a museum for all of Oklahoma to enjoy. His tireless efforts are evidenced by the number and kinds of things he collected. Before he was through, he had amassed some 6555 objects that included beautiful paintings and sculpture from the middle ages to early 20th century, artifacts of Western civilization, material examples from cultures around the world, botanical specimens, zoological specimens, mineralogical specimens.

Because the Museum has such a vast collection of art it can only display a very small percentage of it, so curators go through other pieces from the collection and display them in special exhibitions like this.

I wondered if the umbilical cord stayed in the basket, along with all the treasures that were added to it.    yew.

When Fr Gerrer was travelling around exotic fruits like these were unknown in Oklahoma, so the only way he could bring them back to show them, was to paint them.

Don't those peaches look realistic, with the little bit of bruising on them.  And I hadn't appreciated it is a skill to be able to paint different materials, which is what the artist set out to do here.

I took this on my way out..................

as lovely a picture, I thought, as anything inside.

And the sun was setting as I walked to the car...............

It amazes me how the sky can change in literally moments.   And I was lucky to have gone outside in time to catch these.

And I just want to say, Tim, I'm always appreciating the camera you bought me in Oxford which enables me to take these nice pictures.

I stopped at the hospital on my way home, and picked up a little tub of ice cream from the cafeteria for Pattisue, who had just finished her last unit of blood.   She has to wait about an hour before she leaves so they can do a final lab test and make sure she is alright to go.  We talked about the movies on at the moment, there are two or three we'd like to see.