Road Trip...

Mr. O and I took a short road trip on a chilly Easter Sunday to Wesleyan University's art galleries...It was the first time I have been to that campus and it is very beautiful...spring is trying to show itself here too...




...At the Davison Art Center we saw a small but evocative photography show of Judith Joy Ross photographs...click on her name for a link to the show's description...this was one of my many favorites at the show...

Her most recent photographs included are part of a series of portraits taken of protesters against the Iraq war...

...We then went to the Zilkha Galleries where some Senior Thesis Exhibitions were taking place and were very impressive...I wish I wrote down the names of the student artists of my favorite pieces shown here...but they were included within this group..

Jason Bailey, Travis Fitzgerald, Omar Hunter Craighill, Claire Staples and
Joshua Koenig.

...this wonderful, flowing wooden sculpture...

...and a fun, light-hearted series of very large paintings of chairs of all types...

...all of these paintings were too large to fit in my house but I would have been happy to hang any one of them if I could...

Early Egg Hunt...

Saturday was a rainy cold day....and the grandchildren were here for an egg hunt...

...So the egg hunt was indoors...

...and as you can tell taken very seriously...

Happy Easter...

Before the Rain...

Things are looking a little dreary in Arcadia...

...but I managed to hang some sheets outside for the first time this spring...

...and brought them in just before it started raining...

Eggs...

Some old, some new, some still waiting to be decorated...

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...Just in time for Theme Thursday!

Horseshoe Crab...

It seems that when I was young I could find horseshoe crab shells easily but now it seems rare to spot one ...this is why I was happy to find this rather large, barnacle encrusted, shell on the beach...

More Windy Beach Weather...

Another trip was made to Galilee...this time with the kids...

...the weather was just as windy as it was the last time I was here...

...but the kids don't seem to notice weather at all...

...the surf was rough...

... the wind was rougher...

...and the clouds were gorgeous.

Playing Dress-up...

...Actually just playing with boxes and textures while sorting out some old jewelry...

10X10...

This week Theme Thursday was "Ten"...My brain seems too foggy to come up with a good, original post dealing with a ten of some sort...but ten squared is the number of posts I have made to date!

My Afternoon...

Relaxing in the Caribbean...

April Fool's!...It is really still rainy and chilly here and I'm still painting trim...

Painting...

Somehow, spring cleaning my living room has turned into sanding and painting all the trim...

Rainy Day...

The sun tried to come out...

Butternut Squash...

I received a gift from my daughter of a basket full of butternut squash...locally grown by her husband's grandfather...and needing to be used soon. I found this recipe for Warm Butternut Squash and Chickpea Salad on Orangette a long time ago and wanted to try it out...Now I can vouch for how well all these different flavors meld together...

I really want to buy her new cookbook soon...