almond cake

morgana made almond cake this evening (while i was preparing dinner . . not an easy feat in our little kitchen . . actually, i asked her to wait until i could get some dishes away) . . it was a bit complicated, i thought. she had to separate the eggs and whip the egg whites. it turned out very well. it's made up of honey, almond flour, eggs, a little baking soda . . and that's it.

the children's garden on palm sunday

the children's garden has never been so beautiful. we planted many many narcissus minimus bulbs and they are all up and in bloom. i love walking by and seeing their sunny faces.

chanda and i read a spring poem this morning, after which we visited st. luke in the fields and caught the end of their palm sunday service.

a spring song 

(author unknown)

see the yellow catkins cover

all the slender willows over;

and on the mossy banks so green

starlike primroses are seen;

and their clustering leaves below

white and purple violets grow.

hark, the little lambs are bleating

and the cawing rooks are meeting

in the elms, a noisy crowd;

and all birds are singing loud.

there, the first white butterfly

in the sun goes flitting by.

spring with a vengence

 it's just so warm . . we feel like we're roasting . . 

 72 degrees . . it is nice how all the stores and restaurants have their doors open . . 

the rising moon has been so beautiful this past week . .

spring in sturbridge

 greg sent this pic from sturbridge . . 

 in all the times that he's visited, he's never been on the green at four in the afternoon to see the sheep run by on their way to the barn. morgana says he's usually napping in the car at this time.

 morgana made sure to get some pics of the latest little lambies . . 

 returning interns . . 

 listening to katie talk about the bread: rye, wheat and corn . . tasting a little sweet.

 the grains would be mixed so the wheat would last longer. wheat bread would be made for special occasions or when company came. the pie on the table is apple . . 

 there were two new calves . .

on the rock along the meadow walk . .

Food, Flowers and Such

At Maison Kayser! :D I had been wanting to go here since the Me and
My Girl shows. And now mummy has taken us :) it was very yummy!!!!!!!!

The Adagio

The Mocaccino

The Iphone and The Mocaccino

The Daffodowndillies

The beautiful flowers that Anika and Nikolas gave me :)

I am going back to OSV tomorrow (with no snow. I think....) at 4:30 in the morning!! ahh!!!. The old Jr. Interns (except that I am really just a volunteer this year) are having more training. Which is a new thing, I am very happy about this, because it means I get to see some of the kids that I trained with 2 years ago. I have not seen some of them much since then so it should be fun!

This is I Morgana, with short hair that I like very much and eating french onion soup that is VERY good. This is the very first blog post I have ever made. I hope Y'all have enjoyed it :P

marble experiment, gravity and galileo

 we read about galileo today in robert s. ball's book great astronomers.

 it was in relation to an experiment we did from the "milestones in science" kit we got years ago. chanda rolled a marble down a sloping table, across which string was stretched: two strands at equal intervals, and then the next two at increasingly wider intervals. she was explaining the "law of falling bodies:" that a falling object accelerates as it moves. in order for the marble to roll at an even tempo, the strings it jumped over needed to be further apart. you could "hear" the rhythm of it as it rolled . . well, i couldn't . . but the girls could. galileo brought this concept forward in about 1590 by trying to slow down movement with an inclined plane.

 

 the astronomy club was out on the high line again tonight. or rather, janet and i happened to take a walk again on a tuesday night when the astronomy club was out. m and c told me a little of what they had read in bell's book about galileo: how he was motivated to improve on the telescope manufactured in holland, and was so successful that he was ordered to venice to show off his new device. there members of the venetian senate observed ships sailing on the sea fifty miles away as if they were only five miles. his telescope was popular, and he made several copies for influential people. the power of it's magnitude astounded all who gazed through it: rendering the silvery light of the milky way into stars, and bringing into view the first four moons revolving around jupiter (the ones we saw last week: io, europa, ganymede and callisto).

 morgana has been working on her medieval history lesson book. above is a plan of the cathedral of st.-sernin in toulouse, france, built along the pilgrimage route leading to santaigo de compostela in northwestern spain. it's an example of a romanesque church in the shape of a latin cross with a nave flanked by two aisles on either side, easily accommodating large crowds of people.

an essay on "towns, cities and cathedrals . . "

sunday breakfast and shows

 during the night i soaked a cup of almond flour in yogurt and then baked a pancake in the oven after adding five eggs. it was very good and we had it with honey and st. dalfour fruit juice sweetened jam.

chanda picked out the poem again this sunday:

'tis merry in greenwood

by sir walter scott

'tis merry in greenwood -- thus runs the old lay, --

in the gladsome month of lively may,

when the wild birds' song on stem and spray

invites to forest bower;

then rears the ash his airy chest,

then shines the birch in silver vest,

and the beech in glistening leaves is drest,

and dark between shows the oak's proud breast,

like a chieftan's frowning tower;

though a thousand branches join their screen,

yet the broken sunbeams glance between,

and tip the leaves with lighter green,

with brighter tints the flowers;

dull is the heart that loves not then

the deep recess of the wildwood glen,

where roe and red-deer find sheltering den,

when the sun is in his power.

it was a very busy morning getting ready for the play. i had to make a batch of chocolate chip cookies and put together a salad for selling at the concession we have during intermission. we also had to do morgana's hair, feed all of us, pack a lunch and make sure jack was set for the day. morgana left for the theatre at 11:30, chanda and i left at 12:12 thinking we could still buy flowers! instead we just ran for the theatre to drop off the food, make sure there was help backstage for the quick costume changes and then take our seats. 

  morgana's babysitting friends came to see her.

 and good friends came to see both shows (one o'clock and five o'clock . . )

 janet's pearly queen lambeth costume. she did half paint and half buttons. it looked so good on sarah. she's also wearing chanda's black beret with a feather sewn on.

 afterwards, we went out with deychen's family to "company" on ninth avenue just a block from the theatre. everyone had pizza, but morgana and i had salad (radicchio and artichoke).

back at home, morgana arranged her flowers into vases . . i am so tired!! and so relieved that we can return to a normal week. no more rehearsals! i can't believe it's over. i'm glad. of course i'm still singing all the songs over and over in my head . .

a bit of saturday . .