snowed last night. a thin layer of snow everywhere. not too cold. maynard and i went to the champs de mars this morning (as most mornings).
then made brunch for our friends who had commissioned a painting of their daughter in the style of modigliani. i finally finished that painting. it was very difficult. as i have already mentioned, some of modigliani’s portraits didn’t look like the subjects, so it was interesting to make a painting in his style and also make it LOOK like the subject. i tried several different directions and it took me around 3-4 months. i am pleased with the finished product. today i presented it to them. it seemed that they loved it.
we wanted to make an “american brunch”. the woman is french and a camerawoman (p met her on his trip to cuba 16 years ago). her husband is senegalese. their daughter is around 13 years old. we made pancakes served with maple syrup, blueberry sauce or fresh strawberries. they liked that enough to take the recipe. actually, jj made the pancakes. jj had also bought bacon from the new “marks and spencers” shop on the champs elysees. she says that they don’t have the right kind of bacon in france. i think it’s fine. but this bacon was really english “rashers” which i like better than american, since there is more meat and less fat. then, since it was really lunchtime, i made “tortilla soup”, an old favorite. went well, though maybe a weird combination of foods.
that evening, our good friends, the maguires arrived. i knew g and l from my time working in ireland. we travelled much of ireland together. then they were in san francisco when we were there. our kids are like cousins. we were a tribe. we moved away and they moved back to northern ireland a few years ago. anyway, we wanted to bring them to our favorite local bistro, “au roi du cafe”, but when we arrive they were closed! so we had sushi instead. they seemed to be happy enough with that! we are all squished into our apartment, the 4 maguires sleeping in the living room.
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