I know I have not written in a long time. Should one feel guilty for not blogging enough?

It's been a beautiful spring

Cleaning out old files

Changing the desk in my study for a simpler, lighter look

Weeding

Buying and planting pink and purple flowers

Observing the five tiny fish in my funny tiny pond

Reading library books to Auggie and Anders on the couch on the deck

Making polenta with mushroom marinara sauce and

Shrimp in coconut sauce

Talking with my old friend, Jaye and her daughter, Palin, who are visiting from New Mexico

Going to the Andy Warhol exhibit with Jaye and Palin. Being fascinated by his four "video auditions" of the members of the Velvet Underground--(each man just looks steadily at the camera, hardly moving; one of them slowly drags on a cigarette) mesmerizing.  I realize how much Warhol has affected my viewpoint.  He said he liked boring things.  I like repetition and monotonous sounds, rain, music like chanting, didgeridoo sounds.

Going with Rainey to the Fraenkle Gallery for the last day of the exhibit of photographers who captured a view of the world much like Edward Hopper.  I fell in love with one beautiful photograph of a store window empty of everything except a small, old-fashioned adding machine with a crank handle.  The sign on the store said Calculators.  This image is as beautiful as a Vermeer to me.  It IS a Vermeer!  The light quality, the serenity, the creamy colors, the interior space. Timeless.

Art.  You gotta love it.