We’ve been a bit absent from posting the past two weeks, mostly because we’ve been very busy. Here’s what we’ve been up to:

• Leandra has gone “official” with her creative and web design business, having obtained a business license, bank account and business credit card, and is now doing business as LeGa Design Group. More importantly, she’s working on several projects. Plus, she sold a painting (thanks Beverly and Chris!)
• I’m still in the midst of my academic job search. At this point all my applications are submitted, I’ve had several interviews, and I’ve got a few more interviews coming in the near future.
• Planning our travels for 2008—between now and July we’re traveling to Zürich, Switzerland; San Diego, CA; Tampa, FL; Denver, CO; and Barcelona, Spain. We’re very excited :) On the travel note, we definitely want to highlight Kayak.com, our airfare and hotel search tool of choice at the moment.

This evening we spent some time looking at works by Monet and others at the North Carolina Museum of Art. We prefer to go to these special exhibitions on Member Mondays when it’s not nearly as crowded.

While the Impressionism movement is not my favorite (we saw several dozen works by Monet last year), I can appreciate the style. I had two favorites. “The End of the Working Day” by Breton was incredible in person. The canvas is massive and the intense light of the sun and detailed shade was magnificent. This photo, frankly, doesn’t do it justice.

My other favorite was “On the Heights” by Curran. The play of light and darks in the girl’s faces is lovely and I really like the paint strokes in the sky.