It's pretty lousy weather here. Wet, cold, cloudy, dark early and late. So, now is the time we've chosen to hit up a bunch of museums on our to do list. On Sunday we went to a museum called La Piscine (swimming pool) just over the border in France. It is in a former municipal swimming pool in a town that was thriving until the textile industry faltered. It is an art museum with a section featuring the town's history that has silk swatches that women could choose from for dresses and home decor from the 1800s. But, the highlight is in the area where the swimming pool used to be. They made the pool more narrow and flanked it with a collection of statues that bask in sunlight pouring through sunburst stainglass windows. (I guess the
sun was out long enough to do us the favor of filtering in the windows and highlighting the statues!) Eliot like the pool area and then slept through most of our visit. (We planned it that way....) I'll do one more post about La Piscine to squeeze in more pictures!
It's pretty lousy weather here. Wet, cold, cloudy, dark early and late. So, now is the time we've chosen to hit up a bunch of museums on our to do list. On Sunday we went to a museum called La Piscine (swimming pool) just over the border in France. It is in a former municipal swimming pool in a town that was thriving until the textile industry faltered. It is an art museum with a section featuring the town's history that has silk swatches that women could choose from for dresses and home decor from the 1800s. But, the highlight is in the area where the swimming pool used to be. They made the pool more narrow and flanked it with a collection of statues that bask in sunlight pouring through sunburst stainglass windows. (I guess the 
sun was out long enough to do us the favor of filtering in the windows and highlighting the statues!) Eliot like the pool area and then slept through most of our visit. (We planned it that way....) I'll do one more post about La Piscine to squeeze in more pictures!
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