Saturday

We went to PANERA, which is one of our favorite cafes for brunch on Saturday.
We ordered tuscan chicken sandwichs and french onion soup in a bread bowl. Tuscan chicken sandwiches were very yummy!!! The French onion soup had a lots of melted cheese which made it very tasty. PANERA is always crowded - it is very popular and the food is good.

PANERA
Franklin Street
213 West Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
(919) 929-9189 | phone

We went to Claude Monet Exhibition at North Carolina Museum of Art. Claude Monet is one of the artists I admire most. There were many paintings which I had not seen before. It might have been a collection of his minor works.
Exhibtion place was fairly small, which made it crowded and difficult to stand back from paintings.

Claude Monet lived in Normandy at the end of his life. He loved his garden and put a lot of work. He had a gardener who looked after his pond full time. He got his inspiration for the garden design from Japanese gardens.
Also, he collected Japanese ukiyo-e (wood block prints) especially Shigemasa and Hokusai's works. Their tecniques are reflected in his "water lilies series".

I went to Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris a long time ago. In the musee is Monet grandest series of water lilies paintings. There are four paintings in a round room each one depicting each season. When I saw them, I was overwhelmed.
We would like to go to Monet's garden in Normandy one day.