Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte

We had a great time with Kirk's parents this weekend, who were visiting from Utah. As always when they visit, we ate lots of good food and stayed up late chatting and playing Boggle. We also went on a couple of walks, including one to this park in downtown Columbus. ( It's one of the things I put in my Design*Sponge Columbus guide. My friend, Steph, is the one who told me about it in the first place, though.)

I took the above photo from the wrong angle, but you can still get an idea for how they took George Seurat's original and translated it into topiary form.

image from sarah sherman's article on princeton.edu

And this, of course, is from a scene in Ferris Beuller's Day Off, where Cameron is mesmerized by the original.

This is the kind of thing that we would have discussed for hours in the visual culture class I took in school. I know...hours? But sometimes I wish still had the time and the occasion to discuss things like this for hours...I just don't miss having to write the papers.