back at home

 it's always nice to come home again, especially after such a long early morning drive. we were back before the 11 am to 12:30 pm street cleaning so i had to run out to move the car at five to eleven, and then stayed with it until 12:30. above is korrina's cooking school graduation card from her aunt.

 here korrina is getting ready to sharpen her knives.

 new saucers i bought from the country barn. i love how there is a picture in the center where the cup sits.

 delicious ginger scones from my sister. chanda and i are having tea after she returned from her morning classes, and before she ran off for her afternoon class.

 i read from the fifth harry potter book while she did her hair. we'll begin the sixth on her birthday.

 she's become quite good at putting her hair into a french twist these days.

a pic from the evening after dinner when she was working on her waldorf class lesson. i think she was writing about early american history: the relationship of colonists with native americans.

blue willow dishes and world ballet day

 when we were in connecticut i found some beautiful blue willow dishes that were only two dollars each. there were also two dishes that were priced at $12.95 each and for the life of me i could not see how they were any better than these two. i actually found their print a little two light and prefered the deeper blue of the two in the picture. there were also several nice cake plates and tea cups and saucers with a blue country scene of a man fishing beside a stream, but my cabinets don't really have room . . (however, i am hoping that they will still be in the shop when i go back in a few weeks!).

 great britain bulldog and blue willow staffordshire . . 

 breakfast was a delicious slice of buttered michaelmas harvest loaf and a soft boiled egg . . 

 and dinner was salad with proscuitto bread, which is why hermione is sitting in her favorite meal spot, hoping for a prosciutto treat . . (in between chanda worked on math and italian and went uptown for an open ballet class while morgana went shopping with her austrian friend at macy's for a ball dress).

at 10 pm world ballet day began (last year we were in annapolis for it) and i stayed up too late watching the australian ballet's company class and the new zealand ballet company's rehearsal of giselle (seen here - their artistic director is francesco ventriglia and i could listen to his italian accented english all night).