There's a beautiful park behind the Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport. But today when my brother took his girlfriend and Tipton on a walk there, I decided to check out the current exhibit inside: "The New Reality: The Frontier of Realism in the 21st Century." There were paintings by contemporary artists placed next to miniature reproductions of older works from which the artists drew their inspirations or comparisons. One of the older men working there came to talk with me about some of the pieces, explaining a few. He asked me if I understood a particular one. I said, "Well, no, I don't know that I understand it exactly..." And he kind of gave me his interpretation, and said, "You know sometimes I don't really care to understand it, I just like to look at the art." Agreed.

Chardin's "Young Man Blowing Bubbles" was one of my new finds