The Broad Museum LA

March 26, 2018 By Wendy Ellen Thomas in LA, Travel, Writing Tags: contemporary art museum, Jasper Johns, The Broad 3 Comments

Exploring under the sun and feeling its warmth was, I must say, overdue. The first day however, was pouring, which in Los Angelos led to bus accidents and road closures. We had the good fortune of holding reservations for the Jasper Johns exhibit at The Broad.

The paintings below struck me enough to take photos. Can one honestly articulate why in an abstract? I might say the vibrancy of the colors drew me in. The first photo here was the last that I sat with. Really sat with and looked at while waiting for Ollie and Chloe. It was a good reminder as to how many details can be seen when one sits, gets still and, observes.

And my favorite- the hanging NO

One large, simple NO.

LA to be continued… x wendy

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Cuban Ceviche

February 15, 2016 By Wendy Ellen Thomas in Appetizer, dinner, Fish, My life, seafood, Travel Tags: Ceviche, Citrus, fish, Florida, Halibut 27 Comments

You know the feeling when you haven’t talked to an old friend or relative for ages? Maybe even one you are pretty close to and that you really like and care about? And you keep waiting for that perfect afternoon when you are carefree and ready to cozy up in your favorite chair or kick back on the couch and just dive into a conversation for hours with your 100% undivided attention? But then days go by and months and you have fleeting glimpses of perfect moments that slip through your fingers. And you’re like hell- just pick up the damn phone and call- RIGHT NOW.

Cuban Ceviche@ wendyellenthomas.com

And really whether it’s been months or over a year- you can just start right where you left off with this person- some smiles, some laughs, maybe a little sorrow- but you are just fully present. Can you see my point here? I don’t have to spell it out in anymore detail right? I’m picking up the damn phone and don’t have anything glorious to share here or really even the time to share it if it were. But we just got back from Florida and we had some killer ceviche in Miami and I was like BAM- get some pics of this stuff and let people know you haven’t let go of this blog thing!

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NYC Feb 2015 Walk about and more…

March 1, 2015 By Wendy Ellen Thomas in My life, NYC, Travel Tags: Abc Home, Eataly, Gotham West Market, NYC, Rhinebeck, Tarrytown, Tiny's, train 26 Comments

The larger part of our week was spent roaming NYC and hanging with my awesome son who is living a totally grown up life. I’m so proud and I still can’t believe he’s been on this earth almost 27 years… WHHHAAAT?!#$%%

We often meandered from the apartment in Tribeca through Soho… Look water leaks in the big apple

and north on Broadway stopping at Dean and Deluca’s – here’s a pic of one of our vendors- Big Picture Farm- great folks with lots of goats in Vermont- These caramels are back on the shelves now at Chez Chloe in seasonal boxes and cello bags- chai, mocha latte, raspberry rhubarb… yum

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New York Gift Fair Feb 2015

February 17, 2015 By Wendy Ellen Thomas in Chez Chloe, NYC, Travel Tags: Gift Fair, NYC, NYnow 20 Comments

Another fantastic week in New York City has come and gone. The first half of the week was consumed with NY Now, the international gift fair at the Javit’s Center. On to a little Chez Chloe bricks and mortar business…

It was a lot of fun having my guy along- I have to remember next year to get Orcas Island on our badges. You’d think I had some kind of rack the way people stared at my chest trying to read “Olga”.

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new york city 2/14 last day

February 27, 2014 By Wendy Ellen Thomas in Chez Chloe, NYC Tags: Abc Home, Brooklyn, Dean&Deluca, Eataly, new york city, Pfizer building, Williamsburg 22 Comments

The final installment of new york city Feb 2014. I’m literally regurgitating (i mean that in a good way) the final long and productive day of tromping ten hours from mid town to Brooklyn and back with a few trains in the middle. You saw this one before- the day started with a little snow.

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new york 2/14 second part

February 17, 2014 By Wendy Ellen Thomas in Chez Chloe, NYC, Travel Tags: Chez Chloe, Couleur Nature, Izola, new york city, The French Farm 34 Comments

My first morning of NOT sleeping in and having brunch at 1pm meant getting myself up and out at 7.45am in this. I had the challenging opportunity to stay calm and carry on… but maybe not the way I had planned. Life’s like that right?

And then here I am two weeks later…trying to find a chunk of time to sort through photos. A general, oft said statement and a valid dilemma in the day and age of digital photography. Not only sorting the bigger trips and excursions but the daily snapshots that are sometimes almost too easy to capture. My poor, only eighteen month old computer shouts daily “start up disk almost full” or when its pants are really in a wedgy “start up disk full”… and I have to force quit and clean out a corner.

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new york 2/14… first part

February 4, 2014 By Wendy Ellen Thomas in Asian inspired, Brunch, Chez Chloe, Eggs, NYC Tags: cassoulet, Edward's nyc, new york city, NYnow, Paula Wolfert, The Dutch, Travel 25 Comments

I left Seatac airport over two hours late last Friday, due to the arrival plane’s mechanical difficulties. Under the notion I’d be spending the night in Chicago, IL left me a) disappointed to think I wouldn’t even have time to make it downtown for a look around and b) that I truly wished to have a dash more enthusiasm for the Super Bowl in which case I could have at least been able to partake in the mass craze of blue and green jerseys and paraphernalia. Go Seahawks… and we all now know they did.

Flying out of Seattle and over the mountains…

Incredible patterns we never consider when we are within them. Such a different perspective.

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Detmold Germany 2013

January 7, 2014 By Wendy Ellen Thomas in Germany, My life, Travel Tags: brot, Detmold, flammekuchen, Germany 41 Comments

Here’s a few shots, mixed iPhone/Nikon D80 photos of my trip to Germany last fall. I went to see O. You are going to meet O now. I’m getting personal. Enough with the initials and such. I’m even going to show you what we look like. Yeah, that gravatar of me is about four years old.

I arrived in Frankfurt and whilst getting my bearings after a ten hour flight, I picked up my bag and raced downstairs to the trains. Searching the depths of my mind for my German vocabulary, I panicked, and jumped on an earlier train than planned. So no pics in Frankfurt. Here is the train station in Köln (Cologne).
I love the kind of place where while you are waiting for your next train you are staring at an amazing Cathedral.

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Good eats in New York City

April 1, 2013 By Wendy Ellen Thomas in breakfast, Brunch, dinner, NYC Tags: Fleurs et Vin restaurant, Minetta Tavern, new york city, Prune 17 Comments

I’ve been dying to get my NYC food pics out. Bone marrow. There I said it. I had been a little leary to try it. I’ve tasted a fair amount of off the grid foods- brains and tongue included, which never made my list of must have again. But this bone marrow with salty, delicate gherkins, fresh parsley, moist (and there’s the m word) grey salt with perfectly toasted bread- my guess under a salamander, was divine indeed. My friends are tired of hearing me talk about. It’s my dinner party topic. But I just can’t help it. And no, this is not an April Fools!

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New York City: Day one on foot

March 17, 2013 By Wendy Ellen Thomas in My life, NYC Tags: Abc Home, Eataly, Fishs Eddy, Mariebelle, new york city, Palais des Thes, Prune, Purl, Union Square Market 21 Comments

Here’s a little visual recap of my first day in NYC. Instead of dropping my son at school with a kiss and a wave goodbye, it was at work. I watched him swipe his card to disappear behind the ’employee only’ door with a proud smile on my face. On my own till lunch at 1.45, I began to traipse south from Madison Square Park…

Not having had breakfast, I started at the Union Square Farmer’s Market…