Field Trip: Metropolitan Museum

The flower arrangements are always astounding, dramatic and exotic. You could go to the museum for them alone.

Of course, on a vacation-time Thursday there were a million billion people there, and most of them were taking photos on their cell phones --just like me. Never quite know what to look at, since if you look at everything you get major  sensory overload.

So looked at the modern photos exhibit, then retreated to the Spanish courtyard

to see the young man playing music.

Such a pretty young saint! You can look through the porthole in her chest to discover that she is a reliquary and has real bits of bone inside.....

No one there for an instant.

Then looking down at the hall

and wondering which particular treasures were absorbed that day.