at the met and a dinner guest

 after chanda's second met art class, she wanted to visit the "joan of arc" painting by jules bastien-lepage. my sister is the one who first "discovered" this painting. she would always bring me to see it. now the girls like visiting it.

like joan, bastien-lepage was also a native of lorraine. he first exhibited this painting at the 1880 salon in paris; a time when many other artists were also revisiting the story of joan.

 on the way home . . at the 14th street a, c, e subway station . . peeking through a tom otterness sculpture.

 so, today they took chanda through the africa and oceania galleries and they visited sculptures and masks featuring feathers. then they returned to the studio where they did get to work with feathers. chanda wasn't too excited about this piece . . but then i turned it around and there was a bluebird.

this was her favorite piece that she worked on today.

 she also finished her border . . 

and worked . . a little more . . on her lesson about the first seven kings of rome . . 

this evening i made dilly brown rice from cynthia lair's feeding the whole family, and breaded chicken breasts. morgana brought home a friend from her dance intensive for dinner.

 the friend was hayley, who is actually an old friend. she lives in florida and she and morgana were very surprised to run into each other at the intensive when it began. neither knew the other would be attending. hayley used to dance with the isadora duncan dance company . . when korrina, morgana and chanda were also dancing with the company for a special piece the artistic director, lori belilove, was doing at the alvin ailey theatre called red thread:

you can see korrina, morgana and chanda in the short birthday party scene at 2:01, called "sharing secrets", right before haley comes on to do "runaway." morgana, with her hair in two braids, is one of the girls running on at the beginning and korrina joins the circle wearing blue capris and an orange top. chanda is the tiniest in a pink dress . .(take note of "running ragged," two pieces before their's, which features their isadora duncan dance teacher, faith kimberling, that was always my favorite piece in the whole show).

 it began to rain so we took refuge in chelsea market where we picked out gelato cones . . 

walking hayley home . . 

 23rd street where hayley is staying and where it began to pour . . 

the rain chased away all the visitors to the high line, and walking home along the quiet pathway felt like the days when it first opened . .