a lecture and a visit, and a little bit of pluto

i'll begin today's post with a photo of pluto, since he looked so cute sitting on chanda's bed.

 last night, in the manhatan borough president's daily email, it was mentioned that hunter college was presenting a webinar with joachim pissarro, great grandson of camille pissarro.

 i registered for it (free!) and tuned in at 10:30 am (while making toast and tea!)

it was very interesting and i enjoyed hearing about the friendship of pissarro with paul cézanne, and also a funny little story about cézanne scratching his head at pissarro's dinner table, and when pissarro's wife asked him what he was doing, he answered, "oh no worries, julie, it's just fleas!" (this story was shared at the end when a lecture attendee asked if there was information that joachim had received that would have been due to his familial relationship rather than his professor or researcher status).

i think this is a photo of pissarro with his wife julie . .

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after the lecture, i went out to visit chanda's choreography teacher . . i walked along bleecker street past our lady of pompeii . . 

 and rocco's pastry shop . .

where everything is for take out only . . 

to ellen's apartment, where we kept six feet apart and i made sure to wash my hands. we met at her place, as she was waiting for her air conditioner to arrive. she stores it with a company that services it for her and installs it each summer. the workers all wore masks when they arrived, and ellen and i wiped the door handles and windowsills down after they left.

this is her next door neighbor's apartment, whose plants she is watering . .

 it's such a pretty little apartment that i took a few pictures . . 

and a short video.

 back in ellen's place i had a special cold brew coffee . . 

 and a dish of delicious ice cream that she found at the morton williams supermarket near her . . 

 mint chip and vanilla . . 

 ellen always has the most interesting stories to tell and photos to share. this is a picture of her father with toscanini, who conducted the nbc symphony orchestra in the 1950's. i believe her father is the man in the top left row.

 in her tutu, sewn by her mother.

these are two photos of her teaching the martha graham technique to fellow students at brandeis university where she studied biology and then psychology. she had studied the graham technique with her teacher pearl lang in the city while growing up as a teen in yonkers, and then while she attended nyu for one and a half years before transferring to brandeis. she said her friends paid her 75 cents for two classes a week. she needed to make $6.75 as that was the amount of pay she was giving up with the biology lab job she had in order to the class (at her friends' request). i guess she had nine students.

 i left around 2:45 to make it home before the rain began . . 

 the linden trees are beginning to bloom . . 

back at home i searched my iphoto library for specific photos morgana needed for a resume or application . . i'm not sure which. as you can see pluto got impatient for dinner when the search went on for too long. he likes to pull the tablecloth off the table when i'm not paying proper attention to him.
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i added a few protest photos and two videos to sunday's post, which you can see here.