we've begun reading from the dorothy mills book about roman history. today we decided to read outside since the weather was so beautiful. morgana grabbed her paints and chanda the paint brushes and we headed over to the hudson river park. i read about aeneas escaping from troy and his descendants ruling in alba longa for hundreds of years; i read about romulus and remus being nursed by the she-wolf, and raised in the shepherd's hut. i read about all the fighting and killing and wall building that went on!
while i read they painted rome. morgana and korrina visited rome in 2007 with greg when morgana was performing day on earth with the limon dance company. the above photo is chanda's picture, and she based it on the photos korrina and morgana brought back of the cats in the roman forum. (i've decided to do a separate post with some rome pictures and the youtube excerpt).
morgana's watercolor painting. she couldn't resist adding victor emmanuel's wedding cake (known to the romans as "the typewriter"), as seen from the capitoline hill.
in the afternoon i walked with chanda to her ballet class. this picture is of the azeleas in bloom in the jefferson market library garden.
afterwards, chanda and i met greg in washington square.
greg was going to do a food coop make-up shift, but it was such a beautiful day that . . he played hooky!!
we looked at the books i found in the library about florida. greg and chanda will be flying there friday, may 24th, to visit grandma and grandpa. they will first fly into tampa to visit sarasota where there will be a family "reunion" and memorial service for great aunt joanne who passed away in the winter. then they will drive to new smyrna beach to stay at grandma and grandpa's house. one of the places they are looking forward to visiting is myakka river state park (doesn't it look breathtakingly beautiful!!) near sarasota. i love sarasota. we used to visit great grandma louise there when she was still alive. this is greg's side of the family. his maternal side settled in florida . . they were florida crackers - original colonial english pioneer setttlers of what is now the state of florida . . his grandma grew up in key west. his father's side settled in massachusetts in 1636, fought in the revolutionary war, and then received land and settled in ohio. eventually, they too, found their way to florida. all roads don't lead to rome, they lead to florida!
perusing a book about florida's back roads . . before we walked home for dinner.
the herbert berghoff studio presents landford wilson's the rimers of eldritch! korrina is the production coordinator for the hb studio ensemble project, and she is now in the midst of rehearsals . . six days a week!
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