In the garden

Scenes from the garden over the past few days… The next morning: And in the house:

Miss Maple

Miss Maple got her own feature spread this week! http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/78e07aa6#/78e07aa6/28 Maple is a chunky little melange-breed of a circus dog who makes us all happy.

Broadway

Huzzah!!!!!

Macarons

A couple of years ago, I took a cooking class at Kitchen Conservatory where Margie taught us how to make macarons. I’m trying tomorrow. Here recipe and instructions are thorough! —

#TBT: sixth grade

Found in some of my father’s paper hoard was something about which I have no memory: a “newspaper” from sixth grade at Pleasant Lea Elementary in Lee’s Summit. I was editor. Spring 1973. And I’m chagrined at how much I find my own name in articles that I wrote. Perhaps my PR machine is more

Jessye

Today would be the birthday of the late, great Jessye Norman, beloved American soprano. http://nyfos.org/gustav-mahler-ich-bin-der-welt-abhanden-gekommen/ I am dead to the world’s tumult,And I rest in a quiet realm!I live alone in my heaven,In my love and in my song.

Sophie

Spencer had his first in-person lesson since June. Sophie came too.

More bananas

This is crazy. I never thought I’d see a banana tree flowering in my own garden! And an update from last evening:

Beguine

A couple of years ago, I pushed my music-directing students to know their Latin rhythms. Somehow, my exhortation that they had to know a beguine became a “thing,” and that “thing” continues to this day. Somewhere along the way, their piano teacher Michael Horsley (Music Supervisor at the Muny, among other things) jumped on the

Meal

A late summer meal, from last week: That’s a homemade chicken salad with herbs from the garden, a black bean salad with fresh corn and Roma tomato and farm-fresh peppers and such, and cantaloupe from a nearby farm.