boats sail on the rivers
boats sail on the rivers,
and ships sail on the seas;
but clouds that sail across the sky
are prettier far than these.
by christina rossetti (1830 - 1894)
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since i finally got around to dusting the piano yesterday, i was able then to redo the nature table. there had been a bit too many figures and pine cones, stones and shells. it was good to replace it with a more simple late summer scene.
after we listened to first unitarian's church service, we had brunch with fresh tomatoes and farm eggs.
and then in the late afternoon i went to meet kendall who had been out on a full day excursion with aurélien. they had been to quaker meeting and to see grandma.
i hadn't seen them in three weeks, as they had been upstate . .
and he's grown so much!
he's getting chubbier and with more dimples . .
he's just so adorable. luckily, there was a parking spot not far from the apartment and we brought the bags and the baby up in one trip. she still has a lot of bags to put away from the visit upstate, along with gifts from friends and family that need to find a spot in the apartment. i'll go back tomorrow to help straighten.
back at home i cooked the fish from saturday's market . . cod and scallops, zucchini and tomatoes.
Funny, I also felt the urge to redo our nature table on Saturday. It still looked like July. Aurélien looks like a content baby.
ReplyDeleteIt is getting dark here, fall is definitely coming. Peter is teaching online on campus and the girls are out for a walk. I will do the kitchen now before going back to coming up with a new schedule for us. We registered the girls for ballet with masks, but only twice a week. We will see if the studio will stay open. I am not sure about art. The teacher does not require masks and I am not sure what to say about that. Our local school will also not require masks once they start. Our college has all these strict rules, but the schools around here don't. So many hard decisions to make!
P.S. I think that poem is in one of our memorization books. It is nice.
DeleteI've always loved Christina Rossetti's poetry.
DeleteThat's funny about you working on your nature table also. I think we both feel the change in the season. I agree that these decisions are difficult. I think it's smart of your school to stick with the masks for awhile, and for the ballet school to require them also. The ballet companies I follow on instagram all show their dancers rehearsing in masks with only five or seven other people in the room. My friend had Covid and she was very sick for weeks. She says it's terrible. She still gets setbacks and is not 100%.
Our local doctor had it, but only a very mild case, he did not even feel sick. Jonathan and Charlotte have to wear masks. I think with children many people think that the infection rates are pretty low. In Germany, some schools require masks, others don't, so it is similar to here. We have two more weeks before we have to sign up for art. Maybe those two weeks will show if the "no masks" in public school works or not. We can wait and see until then, if art is a good idea or not.
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