Yale University Art Gallery

Jeff and I have been wanting to visit the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT. for a few years now. In the past, the timing never worked out for us. This year we stayed an extra day with Danielle and Jason and were able to go on Tuesday. The gallery was much  bigger than I imagined. Three floors of art, ranging from ancient to modern. 

I was happy to find a Georgia O'Keeffe in the collection!

Betty Woodman

Peter Voulkos

Jackson Pollack

This room of ancient Mediterranean art was amazing.

Lots of interesting African art

The gallery has a large number of Picasso paintings and few of his sculptures. Lots of pottery in the Asian art section. My camera photos were too dark and not worth sharing.

If you are ever in the New Haven area, be sure to take a couple of hours to explore the gallery.

Yale University Art Gallery

baby it's cold outside...

Yesterday was awesome... despite the fact that was 24 degrees outside! Danielle and I started our day with brunch at a little waterfront cafe that is walking distance from her house. We sipped blood orange mimosas while dining on crab cake eggs benedict. Can you think of any better way to wake up on a Sunday? ... 80 degree weather COULD have made it slightly better but we were having too much fun to notice.

After brunch it was off to the Yale district for a girly afternoon of shopping. The Yale campus is beautiful and of course I had a beautiful girl to photograph as well...

Occupy New Haven is still out there despite the frigid temps...

Personally, I would have packed up and headed home as soon as it got close to freezing! Then again, some of these protesters may not have homes to go to anymore.

We finished the day with dinner at a fusion southwestern restaurant called Geronimo where they made our guacamole table side, exactly to our liking. The food was awesome, the margarita's very good. Prior to calling it a night we stopped at 116 Crown for a cocktail, a very trendy little place a few blocks away from Geronimo. The drinks for great, mine was called Four Thieves and was blueberry infused vodka... YUM!
Like any trip, it always goes so quickly. Tonight I will fly back to NC, warmer weather and Jeff, whose company I am missing.