SMART Train, aka SoCoMaCo Akamai rail

☆New Scenery Visual☆ Driving home yesterday afternoon from Terra Linda and the new SMART train zipped by the parallel tracks along 101 near the Novato narrows. ~ l@@king forward to the train service later this year.

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SMART Train, aka SoCoMaCo Akamai rail is a voter-approved passenger rail and pathway project located in Marin & Sonoma counties. It will serve a 70-mile corridor from Larkspur to Cloverdale, with a first phase from San Rafael to Santa Rosa ~ transit service targeted for late 2016 launch date. The new train bridge in Petaluma is taking a lot of time and resources to finalize.
https://www.facebook.com/sonomamarintrain
@sonomamarintrain
http://main.sonomamarintrain.org

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Petaluma Pete ~ Tourism ambassador video promo for the SMART train! Love the new views of the countryside. http://youtu.be/nrAYGk6mghY

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Sonoma County spring blossom trail is underway at #hiddenforestnursery

This week at #hiddenforestnursery, #Sonomahort, the annual Sonoma County spring blossom trail is underway. The 8 acre nursery and garden is transforming into colorful varieties of fragrant daphne’s, white yellow & purple magnolia canopies, showcasing red, white, pink and yellow rhododendrons, azaleas, plus a full spectrum of camellia bushes and seedlings. If you’re in the area, I recommend dropping by for a visit, close up magnolia blossom viewing opportunities this weekend, don’t wait too long! Hidden Forest Nursery — 3970 Azalea Lane, Sebastopol, CA https://www.facebook.com/hiddenforestnursery

2016 SoCo Blossom trail

2016 SoCo Blossom trail

Eileen azaleas

Eileen azaleas

Rh Grande rhododendron

Rh Grande rhododendron

Peacock camellia

Peacock camellia

Purple tulip magnolia

Purple tulip magnolia

White tulip magnolia

White tulip magnolia

Edgar Degas exhibit is coming to the Petaluma Arts Center!

Edgar Degas exhibit is coming to the Petaluma Arts Center June 20– July 26, 2015! An exhibit including 40+ drawings, prints, pastels and photographs by French artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917) from his early days. The show will also include works by other artists in Degas’ circle, including Mary Cassatt, Paul Cezanne and Henri de Toulouse-Latrec.

BY DAN TAYLOR – THE PRESS DEMOCRAT  March 19, 2015

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/entertainment/3686342-181/edgar-degas-exhibit-comes-to

Edgar Degas study for "Plough Horse"

Edgar Degas study for “Plough Horse,” ca. 1860-61

 

Botticelli to Braque exhibition at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

A feast for the eyes, 500 years and 50+ art masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, rich with history, color, captured moments and lasting impressions. Renaissance classics El Greco, Vermeer, van Dyck, Rembrandt and of course my favorite impressionists, Degas, Monet, Cézanne, Pissarro, and Bonnard.

Don’t miss it! Botticelli to Braque exhibition at the deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA March 7–May 31, 2015 • http://deyoung.famsf.org/scotland

Botticelli, ca. 1490, Reverend Robert Walker, Skating on Duddingston Loch – Henry Raeburn, ca.1795, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw – John Singer Sargent, 1892. The Big Trees – Paul Cézanne, ca. 1904. An Old Woman Cooking Eggs – Diego Velázquez, 1618. Diego Martelli – Edgar Degas, 1879.

Botticelli to Braque exhibition #1

Botticelli to Braque exhibition #1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Allegory (Fábula) – El Greco, ca. 1585-95, The Vale of Dedham – John Constable, 1827, Mars & Venus – Paolo Veronese, 1570, Margaret Lindsay of Evelick – Allan Ramsay, 1758, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary – Johannes Vermeer, 1654.

Botticelli to Braque exhibition #2

Botticelli to Braque exhibition #2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Marne at Chennevières – Camille Pissarro, 1885, La Luzerne, Saint Denis – Georges Seurat, 1884, Lave at Vernonnet – Pierre Bonnard, 1912-1914, Collioure – Andre Derain, 1905, Populars on the Epte – Claude Monet, 1891.

Botticelli to Braque exhibition #3

Botticelli to Braque exhibition #3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Diego Martelli – Edgar Degas, 1879. The Candlestick – Edouard Vuillard, 1900, The Painting Session – Henri Matisse, 1919, Head of a Woman – Alexis Von Jawlensky, 1911, Gas Jet, and Bottle. – Pablo Picasso, 1913.

Botticelli to Braque exhibition #4

Botticelli to Braque exhibition #4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mother & Child – Pablo Picasso, 1902, Showing a young girl the head of his father – Max Ernst, 1927, Three Tahitians – Paul Gauguin, 1899. The Candlestick – George Braque, 1911.

Botticelli to Braque exhibition #5

Botticelli to Braque exhibition #5

Scavenger hunt ~ Patrick Amiot & Brigitte Laurent’s amazing creations of recycled artwork

Sharing some local creative fun in Sebastopol. Finding and photographing these sculptures is like a scavenger hunt. I’ve added a new Pinterest board featuring 100+ Patrick Amiot & Brigitte Laurent’s amazing creations of recycled artwork. Patrick Amiot Junk Arts Sculptures, throughout Sebastopol, CA and Sonoma County.

http://www.patrickamiot.com

https://www.pinterest.com/mace707/patrick-amiot-brigitte-laurents-amazing-collection/

Patrick Amiot & Brigitte Laurent's amazing creations of recycled artwork #1

Patrick Amiot & Brigitte Laurent’s amazing creations of recycled artwork #1

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Patrick Amiot & Brigitte Laurent’s amazing creations of recycled artwork #2

Keith Haring: The Political Line, at the de Young museum, San Francisco

Keith Haring: The Political Line, at the de Young museum, SF
Through February 16, 2015
HERBST SPECIAL EXHIBITION GALLERIES

Many of the works are on loan from the Keith Haring Foundation, New York, with supplemental loans from public and private collections. The exhibition features more than 130 works, including large-scale paintings on tarpaulins and canvases, sculptures, and a number of the artist’s subway drawings. The exhibition creates a narrative that explores Haring’s responses to nuclear proliferation, racial inequality, the excesses of capitalism, environmental degradation, and other issues of deep personal concern.

https://deyoung.famsf.org/haring/about

Additional Online Resources:

Artsy, Keith Haring’s page, and mission.  https://www.artsy.net/artist/keith-haring

Mission: Artsy strives to make all of the world’s art accessible to anyone online. Keith Haring’s page provides visitors with Haring’s bio, over 250 of his works, exclusive articles about Haring, up-to-date listings of exhibitions, as well as publication and collection listings to provide further context. Haring is also featured in their recent editorial about artists who paved the way for marriage equality.

Keith Haring: The Political Line, at the de Young museum, #1

Keith Haring: The Political Line, de Young museum, #1

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Keith Haring: The Political Line, de Young museum, #2

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Keith Haring: The Political Line, de Young museum, #3

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Keith Haring: The Political Line, de Young museum, #4

Keith Haring: The Political Line, at the de Young museum, #5

Keith Haring: The Political Line, de Young museum, #5

Keith Haring: The Political Line, at the de Young museum, #6

Keith Haring: The Political Line, de Young museum, #6