June-- a visit from Ian Thompson for 5 days.
July-- Two birthdays & the 4th of July & Canada Day & a gathering of 5.
Meanwhile, Vancouver House is chugging along ... lots of progress. The main entryway is roughed in. NOT very imaginative.
The triangular buildings are gradually getting their windows.
And they are looking Very Triangular!
Then in August George & I do a road trip to Oregon. We have a visit with a Putney classmate, Perry Prince in Ashland.
Thence to Canon Beach.
We get home to new street-level work with Vancouver House.
The Annual Pesto Festo brought a group of old friends together. Gail & Ian, our hosts.
The many jars of pesto below, before division! + Erica
At Vancouver House, the roadways opening up & the triangular roofs are being planted out.
I went with Max & Reed to the Museum of Anthropology to see puppets, but mostly they loved the storage displays.
Lunch in the sun & shade. They set up a hockey game on the round table, cans for goal posts.
Lucy & Timmo have amazing fulsome hair.
Joslyn on trampoline & at a great nursery.
During this fall I had 3 dates with an old friend, Joey. She had lived in Africa for a few years & came back with many lengths of Nigerian hand-woven strips, These got sewn together & I helped her set up each quilt on a frame & then machine-quilt the pieces. We came to call it quilt-wrangling! This was the 2nd quilt.
This is what quilt-wrangling looks like; she sewed and I steadied!
September also brought us the Climate Marches inspired by Greta Thunberg. Nora & I went down town to check it out.
In September Romane Thibault came into our circle from Belgium. She's been here to study English. I had to draw a huge family tree to explain how we knew her.
October was marked by finally meeting baby Wesley Trivett, having a Thanksgiving meal at our new table, & a visit of Jennifer Trivett.
Vancouver House continued...
Chandelier work below.
Crazy angles of the triangular buildings & new reflections!!
Pumpkin time took me to 1640 Adanac for carving with Max, Reed, & Lesley.
November-- I am trying to decide if I will rejoin Artists in our Midst next spring. After I have photographed all my 2019 quilts I realized I was already booked up in May.
More African Cloth.... & L-Shapes, small quilts.
A Knot .....
....& (2 larger ones) 3 Colors, 2 Windows Three High-rises. Where'd that idea come from?
At Vancouver House there is interest in the installation of a huge $4 million chandelier. I'm waiting for the reveal. Plantings happening too.
The electrical work for the chandelier.
The drama of the Triangular Buildings.
A visit in Washington DC & George, Alan, & I watched the Impeachment Hearings.
We went out for many meals. Father Thereso was at one resto.
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I had been looking forward to finally getting into the National Museum of African American History & Culture.
I loved it!! And there was some stuff about Garrison too.
Beverly Morgan-Welch, an information director of the Museum gave me a morning. I had met her during the Garrison Reunion time in 2005 in Boston. She now has a White House view!
Alan suggested we go to Arlington Cemetery. It was amazing. I had never been. I loved the chairs in front of one of the houses.
And the year ends with the Chandelier, designed by Rodney Graham. This piece has generated much editorial ink!!
My favorite shots are the surprise glimpse ones.
That's it for now & QUITE enough!!
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