Where am I?

We moved on from Green Lake to Oshkosh, WI...my home town :-)
We are fortunate enough to be able to stay rent free in my sister's driveway with 30amp and water and shade!  We have had a great visit so far, dinner at my nephew's home with his wonderful wife and so cute dog.

They have a nice home with a super garden, and beautiful yard.

How cute is this?!

We visited the Paine Art Center and Gardens, which I haven't been too in so long.  What a beautiful place.

The house was built by a local lumber baron, Nathan Paine and his wife Jessie back in 1927.  The depression brought the construction to a halt in 1932.  In 1946 the Paines decided to establish the estate as a museum and work was finished in 1948.  The house was never lived in, the kitchen never finished, what a shame it never housed a family.

We went to see the Chihuly Venetians art glass exhibit.

You couldn't take pictures inside, which was a shame.  I recognized the work as we had seen some last year hanging in the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

At Mayo Clinic

The work at Paine was a lot smaller, but just as amazing.  There were also watercolors by the artist which he used to develop his glass art.  Everything there was from a private collection.  Cary talked to the guard about how the shipping was handled.  The pieces are disassembled and shipped then reassembled at the destination.  Some of the parts break in shipping and are replaced.  Also they are not always reassembled the same way.  Interesting.
We also toured the gardens, it seems the theme this year was an edible landscape as chard, basil, dill and other herbs and vegetables were incorporated in the landscape.

But I don't think that the gardens were anywhere near as beautiful as my sister's gardens.

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My sister Su has an amazing yard.

And she maintains it all by herself!

One of my personal favorites

All of the above on in her back yard

Back at the Paine, we walked across the street and checked out a statue and monument.  Don't remember what it was all about, but it was a nice shady spot.

Couldn't go to Oshkosh without visiting Menominee Park.

It is always surprising to see places we went to when we were kids.  Places look so much smaller now, like this beach.  In any case, this is one of the nicest city parks I have ever seen. 


Gotta visit Leon's

Where I had a....

butter finger avalanche with chocolate custard.  Didn't eat much of it though, it's still in the freezer...

A trip to Neenah for Chinese food, which Cary has been craving since we left FL.  

These are pics of my sister and her husband's dishes as mine was not picture worthy....too bland.  But it was delicious.  We took a drive around some neighborhoods with huge homes on Lake Winnebago.  People there had made their money in paper products back in the day of Kimberly Clark and Bergstrom Paper.
 
Visited the cheese factory in Zittau, shopped at the Oshkosh Outlets, and went out to dinner last night with two wonderful women and good friends that I've known for a long, long time.  And I forgot to get pictures!


So, the adventure continues.  We will be here for a few more days and then head south.  Hopefully I will remember to take pictures!