I thought I'd continue on Jessica's travel theme today and mention my recent trip to San Francisco's de Young museum in Golden Gate Park, which is amazing both outside and in. I was disappointed to find that the Chihuly exhibition was sold out when I arrived (big sigh), but there was plenty to see, including Timothy Horn's Bitter Suite, a good deal of which is made out of sugar. Jane Hammond's large scale works on paper were also a treat. The number of American paintings in the de Young's collection is not small and I got to see a painting I'd long desired to see in person: John Singer Sargent's A Dinner Table at Night. In short, no matter what's going on a the de Young, there's always enough happening to fill an afternoon, if not an evening too.