Moon phase: Waxing crescent Weather: Hot and humid, with impending thunderstorm Phenology: Mayapple is fruiting When I was a sophomore in high school, my Humanities Through the Arts class was studying the architecture of the Guggenheim, and we convinced our teacher that we needed to go to New York and actually see it. So we went up there for a couple days and visited several art museums and also had a blast hanging out in Manhattan and Brooklyn. But when we went to the Guggenheim, it was closed. Oh the irony! The side galleries were open, actually, and I enjoyed seeing some Picassos and Van Goghs, but the entire point of the trip had been to see the spiral of the main gallery, and it was fucking closed. So anyway, in my recent trip I actually got to see it finally. I couldn't take pictures from the upper levels, unfortunately, but these from the first floor turned out well.