If you live in a small upstate New York town, you need to get out every now and then, we aren’t going to Florence anytime soon, so we have perfected the short and sweet jaunt, sometimes a day or two, sometimes just a few hours. You have to keep the hinges oiled, stretch the boundaries, exercise the mind and the imagination. We love our small town, but if you don’t go anywhere, life can get, well….small.

Today we knew we needed to get out,  I was sick for a day or so and Maria has been working hard. We went to one of our favorite museum’s MASS MOCA, the Massachusetts Institute of Contemporary Arts, a huge, sprawling and amazing re-converted mill in North Adams Mass., about an hour from us.

You can get lost in this cavernous place, it is an architectural marvel and a grand showcase for big works and big artistic imagination. We were dazzled by Christopher Ross’s stunning photographic and video representations of wave landscapes, and I took a photo and a short video for you to see.

Ross has captured the beauty and rythyms of waves in a way I haven not seen before.

On the way back, we stopped in Williamstown, Mass. for an early dinner – lamb burger for me, a falafel wrap for Maria. As always, we are glad to be home.