autumn equinox: an art exhibit, dinner and a seal sighting on the cape

 
the whitney has a new exhibit titled: edges of ailey. it's a combination of music, video, paintings, writings, and sculpture. the company will also be performing during the coming weeks at the museum.

it's a very compelling and beautiful exhibit. 

we sat down to dinner and chanda commented on how nice it is to have cooler weather so we can have roast chicken again. i haven't baked a chicken since spring. it's officially fall! and it became official at 8:44 am this morning.

my sister sent this video of a seal she saw by the harbor in wellfleet.

i need to pace myself with posting the london photos. my eyes get very tired staring at the computer screen, so i haven't added to the victoria and albert museum visit yet. i'm going to have to be firm and figure out a schedule for myself combining yoga, eye exercises and writing. here's the post i left off with: getting started with the victoria and albert museum.

the shawl and london on a quiet day

i finished my trés lis shawl! (just trust the process) and i made three tassels out of the one fat one that both korrina and chanda said looked more like a cat toy.

here's monday the 19th in london, the day of queen elizabeth's funeral. yesterday's post has the links for sunday which i divided up into morning and afternoon/evening.

on the way to the dentist and lunch with chanda . . and more of london

i passed this interesting and amazing sculpture on my way to the dentist this morning (by bruno catalano: patrons of park avenue).

on the way home i realized it was lunchtime and chanda was out of class . . i stopped at breads cafe for lunch for us (tuna and egg salad with bread on the side, and a spinach/feta bureka).

it was nice to sit with her in the school's courtyard . . 

i've also spent a lot or time putting together a post about the morning of september 18th in 2022 when we were in london . . and here's the afternoon.

more of london in 2022

the london trip continues for saturday the 17th in 2022. in that post i come across this book in a used bookstore . . my sister gave this to me in 1975 . . 

an article she saved for me from the new haven register in 1977 when gerald durrell received an honorary degree from yale.

a note from the book jacket.

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in regard to today: greg, chanda and i observed the partial lunar eclipse this evening. it was a chilly night and the full moon looked beautiful. 

september 16, 2022, graduation!

 
morgan's graduation from 2022 . . i finished writing it up in 2023, a year and a half after the event, and decided to wait until today to post it.

click here for the post in it's proper time frame. the prior london days are up, but stay tuned for september 17th, 2022 which i'll post tomorrow.

the travelers return

greg and korrina returned from our travels on the 24th of september, but morgan and i continued on to austria where i met the au pair family morgan has known now for six years, and we only returned on friday, september 30th. today was our first time all together again since we left. it was also the first time chanda got to hear the full story of morgan's graduation and to see the photos and short videos of of london. chanda had also requested a skein of yarn from the london yarn shop korrina and i went to on friday the 23rd, the day before we left london, and today she finally received it, along with a few skeins of lovely plant dyed yarn from a shop manu took us to where they made beautiful wool rugs.

korrina was still drying a beautiful child's blanket she made for her friend's baby who is turning one year old today.

 

cute artwork korrina saw someone selling on a london street that she bought for chanda.

and sweet treats she brought back especially for chanda  . .
 

i made our holiday egg casserole dish which permeated the room and made it feel like christmas.

cappuccino made by morgana . . 

laughing at a photo i took of us "whats apping"  with chanda from london . .  

it was a fun time together, after which chanda went home to attend a local cat adoption event in her neighborhood which she was writing about for her environmental journalism class; while we drove korrina to the birthday celebration (and got to meet little one year old tommy) and then continued on to ikea, where we had a fun time helping morgana pick out some essentials that were wanted for fixing up the bedroom and where we also enjoyed a swedish meatball meal along with coffee and cinnamon buns (which were first sold out but luckily several more batches were made). ikea was very busy at 3 pm in the afternoon on a weekend!

getting started with the victoria and albert museum

 

"we began our morning at gail's again, korrina, greg and i. morgan stayed back at the apartment to finish her laundry. after gail's we hopped on the #19 bus to the v and a along the fulham road which led into the cromwell road (i'm reading ballet shoes which all took place in this neighborhood). it was fun to see the south kensington tube station from the vantage point of the top deck . . seeing where we sat on our first morning at that small gail's on cromwell place across from the ampersand. we got off just past the victoria and albert where we wandered for three glorious hours. . . from the knitted and embroidered garments and lacework to the raphael cartoons . . to the turner and constable paintings and to a special beatrix potter exhibit . ."

i decided to try something different this morning . . salmon with chives instead of salami and cornichon.

my indigo tee (my boy lollipop by nancy ricci) . .

(south kensington station from the top deck of the bus) . . 

and that's the natural history museum's spire just ahead . . 

such a beautiful building!

at the v and a!

we walked around the corner and entered on the side . . 

st. john the baptist by auguste rodin (1840-1917) paris, bronze, 1879/80

dress, john galliano (born 1960), 1984, great britain, knitted wool and cotton

the cartoon room . . 

the miraculous draught of fishes, 1640's, tapestry (wool and silk) woven after raphael's design

beautiful embroidered panels by mary, queen of scots . . 

i find them quite whimsical . . 

this looks like a chihuly . . 

i always wonder how dusty these get . . and how are they cleaned? 

i loved this room with its stone heads and warm, brown wood and comfortable bench to sit and rest and knit.

well, that's all for now. pluto is pestering me to feed him and there's dinner to get on too . . stay tuned for beatrix potter's aesop's fables drawings . . and the rest of the day . . 

(writing all this - after the fact - at home.)