Kim Schmidt Photography LLC Princeton, NJ Photographer

Like I said in the previous post, I’m sharing more of our time at MoMA.

There were some items that I was blown away that were on display. Like this one, its basically four colored panels.

This is made from newspaper clippings, pretty cool.

Performance 4 is the name of this ongoing exhibition. It started as blank room (4 walls) and an employee of MoMA writes the name, height, and date of visit of any visitor. From far away it just looks like chicken scratch, but you see thousands of names. In the second photo you can see it a little closer. The line was fairly long and my feet were hurting so we didn’t participate but I knew I’d be in that black mess.

Compressed cardboard lounge chair. I was more than willing to take a load off on this thing.

Not only did we do all that I’ve blogged about, but we also went to see Next to Normal on Broadway. I liked it, fun music, although a heavy topic (mom w/bipolar disorder). That rounds out the total of Broadway plays to 5. I’m hoping to make that number much higher before we leave the east.

This is a little late as it was almost two weeks ago, but I wanted to come back and revisit our second day in NYC.

Our room at the Best Western President Hotel. It was just perfect for us until we fell asleep that night. Our window was on the side of the street and right next door to the fire department. We got woken up several times from firetrucks or the garbage truck. The joys of staying in NYC.

We took the subway over to Grand Central Station. It was my first experience there and its more than breathtaking.

After Grand Central, we went to the Museum of Modern Art. The first three photos are from an exhibit Projects 90: Song Dong. Its all the items that came from his mother’s house, collected over 50 years, including the hut structure. It was incredible to see all of it laying out.

I’m going to be posting more photos from MoMA tomorrow.

A lastly we stopped at Crumbs Bakery. Red Velvet Cupcake. YUM!!

Anthony & I are currently in NYC for two days. We decided this on a whim last week and here we are. Just a few from today. We went down Wall Street, rode the Staten Island Ferry, walked around Times Square, had dinner at Schnippers (great sloppy joes across from the Port Authority Bus Station), and saw Next to Normal. A few photos from today. Tomorrow its suppose to be rainy so we’re gonna do the Museum of Modern Art.

Wall Street/New York Stock Exchange

Saturday we took a break from the hustle & bustle to celebrate birthdays. Anthony has two younger brothers and they all three celebrate birthdays in the month of July (actually within 5 days of each other). We celebrated in a quiet way by stopping at Halo Farms near the Trenton Farmer’s Market in the morning, a quick visit out to Terhune Orchards, and then a leisurely afternoon seeing Harry Potter.

I had never been out to Halo Farms (970 Spruce Street, Trenton, NJ (609) 695-3311), but had heard about it and even tried their ice cream before. We pulled up and were greeted by “cows” milling around on the side of the building. They were really creative in their placement of the cows, even had several around a “watering hole”. The big shocker to me was walking in and seeing the prices on everything. A half gallon of milk is currently $1.09. That beats any grocery store around here. Ice cream is buy 2, get 3rd free. We took advantage of the ice cream and ice tea. Too bad I had just bought a gallon of milk at the store two days before.

The family at Halo Farms (Noah, Taylor, Vicki, Gram, Anthony, Nanny)

The birthday boys; Taylor (21), Noah (15), Anthony (27)

Up next: Sunday in NYC

Last Saturday Terhune Orchards held their annual Blueberry Bash. Anthony and I ventured over there to visit the orchard, get some pictures and fresh produce. We ended up not picking any blueberries, but I did get some phenomenal empire apples in their store (which empire is my favorite apple) as well as green beans, zucchini and more.

Clockwise: Raspberry, blueberries, blueberry trees, unripped blackberries, and some apples.

I felt like these needed a vintage processing.

LOVE their husband & wife scarecrows.

Memorial Day, Anthony and I decided to head to Doylestown, PA to visit the Mercer Museum. This was an item on our Schmidt’s Adventure.

Henry Mercer gathered everyday life items from the 18th and 19th centuries and completed a 6 story stone castle to house the collection. The objects document the lives and tasks of early America, before the Industrial Revolution. Mercer had quite the organizational skills, placing like items in their own alcoves, i.e. file making, printing, tinsmithing, wallpaper, harvesting, etc. He also placed the items in importance to the individuals. The first few floors are items that were essential and then the higher floors were for luxury and items for fun.

With Rollo, Mercer’s dog.

This exhibit really caught my eye, wallpaper and textile making.

When you first walk into the museum, you see the central court with a whale boat and more. I didn’t realize Anthony was in the shoot, but I love that he is looking up in amazement. There is so much stuff crammed into this castle its amazing. There are even baskets and cradles on the ceiling.

Outside of the museum/castle.