Since moving, western Massachusetts fits more easily into our orb, and we discovered today that the Massachusetts Institute of Contemporary Art (Mass MOCA) is just 45 minutes away from our new farm. We had lunch at a great Thai restaurant in Williamstown and then wandered about the museum – an amazing space in a vast mill on the edge of North Adams, Mass. We’ve been there before, but we were especially interested in Chinese artist Xu Bing’s “Phoenix” exhibit, an astounding sculpture of two mythical Phoenixes longer than a jumbo jet, constructed by a team of artists and welders. I couldn’t do just to it in a photo. The Mass MOCA space is amazing. We got back in time to feed the animals and a first-class Arctic front is roaring in, the temperature has dropped nearly 40 degrees in just a few hours. Red came with us, he was rattled by the howling winds so he just hung out on the back seat. We love where we are.