Out and About - February

♫Here, There, and Everywhere♫

February's weather was not any better than January's, but we did go out more because we had things to do---like help one of our son's and his wife move into their new rowhouse on the 1st.  All their friends and family showed up with their cars and moved them the half-mile....

Bringing Life to Sculpture

♫Chopin♫

A friend's post about the bronze sculpture outside her library gave me the idea to post photos of the sculptures we've had the privilege to come upon in our travels.  This is our library's sculpture....

C. Burr Artz Public Library, Frederick, MD

Directors Guild of America Awards Dinner

♫The Sound of Silence♫

 The Directors Guild of America holds their own awards program every year to honor its members.  Forty-six years ago this week I attended  the 19th Annual DGA Awards Dinner at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.  I was the guest of my Aunt Irene's husband, Reg Browne. 

The Waltons

              I've been thinking about The Waltons because Ralph Waite, the father on The Waltons, died last Thursday.   

A Love Story

The song ♫Leaving on a Jet Plane♫ ran continuously through my head as I watched my beloved walk from me down the dark, barely-lit street in the middle of the night.  The memory of the physical and emotional pain I felt is still with me.  He had already taken his car to his parents' house in Illinois where it would be garaged for the duration, so he had to walk the several blocks to the boarding house where he was staying.  I was 16 and he had just turned 21.  I would be in class--a senior in high school--when he boarded the bus to Detroit the next day where he was to be drafted into the Army....

That's Ken in the first row, second from right

Evolution of a Kitchen

♫Reflections of 1952♫

If you clicked on the above link you're listening to the music in vogue the year our kitchen was designed and built by a scientist and his concert-pianist wife.  Because we've been doing some refurbishing in our kitchen I thought I'd show you how this kitchen has evolved over the years.  

These photos were given to us by the second owners from whom we bought the house in 1981.  This is how the kitchen looked when the house was sold to them in 1969.  That's my kitchen window you've been seeing in my "View From My Kitchen Window" posts....

Ice and Memories

♫Through the Storm♫

Wednesday morning this week we woke up before the sun as usual.  As we drank our morning coffee, I back in bed, Ken in the livingroom, we could hear creaking and popping and snapping, and OH, NO, boom! Gabriel had been let out earlier to do his business, but when he rang the bell again to be let out after sunrise this is what greeted him.....

View Outside My Kitchen Window - February

♫Blues Guitar♫

The first day of February was warm and most of our snow melted, but as you can see we have a new covering of snow today....