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It was 75˚f of total perfection today, and I'd been contemplating the idea of starting to discipline myself to do some one-on-one botanical illustration at the UC Botanical Garden . So I just wrapped-up work after lunch and headed to the hills. I didn't end-up sketching because it felt so good to just walk around in the nice weather. But took pictures and made notes of where the good spots for sketching were. Later headed to catch the Kurt Schwitters at the Berkeley Art Museum, which I highly recommend as it is very comprehensive, exhibiting some beautiful compositions, including a recreation of "Merzbau," a room-size installation. Like most modern artists living in Germany, Schwitters fell victim to the rise of the Nazi party and the systematic campaign against avant-garde art in the 1930s. His work was confiscated from German museums, and Schwitters spent his life in exiled in Norway, and then England, escaping the Nazi invasion.     It