sky pictures and a studio rehearsal with friends

 the sky was so beautiful this evening . . korrina was taking pics too on her instagram . . i don't know how to pull up just one photo from instagram. i think i'd have to ask her to send it to me.

chanda rehearsed with a friend before ellen's modern dance class, and after the waldorf class. it was good to do as it solidified the ideas they have for their end of year solos.

 walking to the train . . 

one more sky pic looking north . . 

palm sunday

chanda and i joined the first presbyterian church on fifth avenue for their palm sunday procession this morning.

the bagpipe procession to the park . .

we met a woman who had just arrived from greece and was happy to join everyone. it was such a beautiful sunny morning.

 homemade sour dough bread . . 

 "new year's" dinner . . black eyed peas and collards and sweet potatoes.

 continuing our game of "may i."

 korrina is making jiji from kiki's delivery service . .

chanda's winning hand.

walking home

 walking home through washington square park . . 

the commemoration for the triangle factory workers . . 

east village building collapse

 greg and i walked over to the east village today.

 everything was blocked off. there's just so much rubble.

 with all the buildings surrounding you, it's actually difficult to see that three are missing unless you're right on top of them, or you take a picture high up.

you can see the rubble above the cop's head on the left. it's all incredibly too sad. you can read about it here.

friday at the new vic

 today was our last new vic show of the season and it ended up being a great show. the group was called flip fabrique and they were a group of friends who had attended the circus school in quebec.

catch me! or attrape-moi . . they were funny and wild and bounced around all over the stage with each other and with big red bouncy balls . . they even brought out a huge trampoline and bounced up onto a wall. the show followed a story line of friends getting together for the day (in a rainstorm!) and for a sleepover. there was a funny skit of them all wearing their sleeping bags over their heads and walking and dancing around like big sleeping bag bears. the music was fun (yes, it was loud but not continuously so, and there was lots of humor and laughter even mixed with a poignant scene of missing a dear friend who wasn't with them . .) they were really great. all of us just loved them. it just goes to show what enthusiasm and talent, humor and compassion can create. here they are:

a grey thursday

thursday is broken up by a duncan dance class before the ballet class, so chanda tries to get as much done in the morning as possible. here's breakfast with vedic math.

 walking home for lunch after the duncan class, before going to ballet . . 

 it was grey and warm today . . 

chanda took a pic of me downtown wearing my finished cowl today.

yarn company cowl pattern with verdant gryphon's psychedelic peacock yarn.

chalk 2015: the triangle shirtwaist factory fire

 for the 104th commemoration of the triangle shirtwaist factory fire, chanda and i joined chalk 2015, led by director/writer ruth sergel.

 we walked over to 11 charlton street . . 

 we had one name to chalk: daisy lopez fitze, a young woman who had been recently married before losing her life in the fire. her husband had returned to switzerland ahead of her with his savings where he was establishing a small inn and where she was to have joined him in just a few weeks.

daisy's great niece has written about her aunt in a book titled, they were legal, balzac y lopez: a creole family memoir. the chapter, a flower for daisy, can be read from a new york state labor pamphlet here.

 every year ruth has many volunteers helping her chalk in the names of the women who perished in the fire on march 25, 1911.

 it was an honor for us to be participating this year. we've passed people chalking in the past, and have always enjoyed talking with them and reading about the workers.

you can see a few of my past blog posts about the fire here, here, and here

food pics from austria

here are the many food photos morgana has sent me from austria. i held back in posting, waiting for more details from her . . but we never coordinated properly, so i decided to just put them up!