It's been unusually cold here. I am not used to seeing locals bundled up in New York City fashion. Usually, you see your pals dressed in the same jacket and hat year round, sans gloves or knee-length coats or ski garb. Today, I spent the morning in the new De Young museum, drawing. The De Young has a great interior space. As for art, I am especially fond of the collection from Africa and Oceania. Where is Oceania, anyway? Is it near Texas? Most of my time at the museum was spent drawing Susannah and the Elders, by Thomas Hart Benton. The painting depicts the Biblical Susannah recast as a young Midwestern farm wife. While I was painting, a tour came by with a docent who stopped to discuss the painting. However, I found her insights rather pedestrian. She kept talking about her own midwestern farm family. Talk about the artist and the painting, for crying out loud! One woman stood so close to me during the talk, that I felt like she couldn't see me at all. Weird. People are strange: while some students were drawing, patrons would stand directly in front of them almost as if on purpose. Clueless!