Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

What is going in my oven later today? In a moment, but first..

Trying to convince my kids that a trip to the MFA will be fun is a little like trying to tell them that their pancakes will be just as good without the syrup. I am a brave soul and I wanted to expose them to something different. Besides with a week off -a foray into Boston from the Cape is a must.

I learned three things yesterday. In the music gallery I learned that Ben Franklin invented an instrument. It was glass housed in a wooden box. I learned that Antonio Lopez Garcia, an artist from Madrid, will put a painting away for up to a year if the lighting from the current season has altered dramatically. I also learned that you can get kids to do just about anything if you promise a trip to the museum cafe for desert.

I was impressed that Garcia would choose to do that with his paintings. I would worry that when I finally came back to the painting a year later I would no longer have the same passion I had for it the year before or I would look at it again and want to change it so much that their would be no point in continuing on that particular painting. I admire his commitment to the creative process. He seems to have an unusual trust in his work.

As for pancakes without syrup-I actually like them better that way. As for what is going into my oven today- lemon cakes and banana bread.