walking about

 greg and i took a walk to the humus place on sixth avenue today. kathy and warren ate here when they visited the rubin museum. greg enjoyed it, but i prefer moustache . . 

 the woman in the orange pants is dressed in gator (university of florida) colors.

 passing the rubin . . 

 on bank street . . 

 and back at home, where chanda was enjoying her homemade scones with clotted cream and jam,

and reading redwall.

baking day

 chanda made scones from the redwall cookbook today . . 

i love scones . . especially when i didn't bake them.

visiting the met

 breakfast . . 

 

 and then a met museum visit . . 

 admiring beautiful paintings by luca carlevaris . . 

 imagining being in venice . . 

 a beautiful fresco of st. christopher by ghirlandaio, florence, 1448. pigments mixed with water were applied directly onto wet plaster. i remember visiting a special fresco exhibit here at the met in the 1970's with my sister and parents. i was very little and very impressed (i think it was actually in 1968 . . here's the book from the exhibition).

there's more to write but we're on our way to visit nana and nonno for the weekend.

visiting veniero's

 my nephew and his friend have been staying with us these past few days.

 this evening we visited veniero's for cookies and canolis.

it's been fun talking with him and hearing more stories about his and chanda's adventures in london. (greg had to run off to work before having his lemon sorbetto and coffee as someone cut a fiber cable while working in the street).

soups and giselle

so we've returned to the city again . . i heard it was going to be very warm and i was prepared to stay another week at the beach, but chanda was ready to come home. it was good we did as she began rehearsals yesterday for a small ballet performance that will be happening in madison square park next week. we were having lunch with our friends whom we hadn't seen all summer when her ballet teacher called asking, where was she? we had never received the emails with the rehearsal dates!

here is this evening's dinner . . san's soup! butternut squash with nut butter soup . . (it was so delicious, thank you san!)

from the river cottage cookbook . . 

which we had found in the southampton library. we'll return it this coming weekend as we will be going east again for the memorial day holiday . . and to check in with my parents. they like the company these days. i think. they can use the help but my dad doesn't always welcome it as he's very independent and doesn't like to feel that he can't do all the things he used to do . . (sigh). growing old is not easy.

chanda and i have been watching giselle. both movies take place in milano at la scala, but one is with rudolph nureyev and carla fracci from 1980, and the other is with roberto bolle and svetlana zakharova from 2005. i think tomorrow we'll try and see alessandra ferri dance the part on youtube. there are several versions with her from paris opera, la scala and abt . . not all of them are the full ballet. i enjoy seeing all the different dancers and versions . . though i suppose my commentary can get a bit annoying . . "hmm, they certainly do a lot of mooning over each other in this one," "her shoes look painful," "how come he didn't cling to the cross in this one . . where's the scene where they try to kill him . . isn't she supposed to dance him to death?"

good-bye

i'm posting these montauk beach days so many years later . . august 22, 2020 . . i'm not sure why i never posted them in 2014. it was a stressful time . . mom and dad weren't doing so well, and kathy wanted to move them up to connecticut, and i agreed that it was the best thing to do. i have wonderful memories of those last days in connecticut . . but, still, i miss these days so much . .

summer days

nature walk and a last swim

 we visited the point where we observed several different types of seaweed along the intertidal zone. i recorded it in my nature journal.

 we also saw thistle . . 

 and goldenrod . . 

 and then drove to gin for a last swim . .

 where the seagulls, today, were particularly winsome . .

 charming!

 and the sky glowed pearly blue and white . . 

 irish moss seaweed . .

 along with dulse, green seaweed and rockweed . . 

i will miss all of this . . and mom and dad.