The National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian

Dear Fellow Culture Freaks,

If you love the performing arts, you must  immediately drop everything you are doing, and go see the new dance show at the National Portrait Gallery. 

It centers around the greatest dancers of the Western world. 

Notables pictured via photography and video include Mikel Baryshnikov, Rudolph Nureyev, Gene Kelly, Josephine Baker, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Chita Rivera and many many more. 

Caps on the Water, Ponte Vedra, FL

Dear Imaginary Friends,

This restaurant is hard to find, but what a lovely experience on a sunny, warm day in the winter: Caps on the Water, south of Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, has a friendly, laid back vibe.
It was mid seventies, and the view of the Intracoastal waterway was panoramic. The restaurant itself lays beneath Spanish Moss-draped Oak trees. If you order the amaretto chocolate pie and a Mojito, you will be lulled into bliss.
Just sayin'.

Your imaginary friend,
Patsie

Virginia and Parker discuss the joys of Florida

Chillin' in the Warmth of South Ponte Vedra, FL

A boat named Parker

This Guy no doubt owns the Parker boat!!

Movember

Even popsicles are bringing attention to men- specific diseases this month. 

Ice Sculptures at Sawgrass Beach Club

Angry Geese

To be avoided: homicidal geese. Cannot trust them.  Would you look at those shark-like teeth??

Way Down Yonder in New Orleanssssss

Patsie and her chocolate snowball

Susan and her red snowball

Free pernod amuse-bouche at Commander's Palace

Beef Empanada at Commander's, with Cabrito: local tomatoes, barbecued red onions, red beans, sweet potatio fingerlings, spiced pecans, Brie cheese, red pepper paint and warm bacon vinaigrette

Our fave restaurant

Spotted: Hessian Regiment

Seen at Old Europe Restaurant in Georgetown tonight: a Hessian regiment who had just done battle "to save our king."

They questioned me as to my ancestry and luckily, my maiden name of Miller pleased them. 

They said, " Ah, Mueller!;) Auf wiedersein!"

Your German-American,

Patsie