I could not resist snapping this picture yesterday: teenager’s much-anticipated pink Sony Vaio arrived (pink because that’s ironic, of course), and the image of father and son hunched over laptops made me smile. I shot this in the dining room, where husband prefers to work in spite of the fact that he has [...]
Occasionally when I can’t sleep I dig into my collection of ballet videos and revisit some favorites. This was the case over the last couple of weeks when I decided to dust off my copy of ABT’s Le Corsaire; this particular production was taped in 1999 at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in [...]
As usual, Shakespeare on the Square nearly got away from me. This is typical. I hear the dates and the plays announced months in advance, think I have loads of time to see them, and then they’re nearly gone. This was the final weekend: I’m sorry to say I made it [...]
It’s a name I hope the ballet world will be hearing more of someday. Gwynn is a young student at Johnson City Ballet Academy, where my mom has been coaching her for the past couple of years, and is now also one of her teachers. I met Gwynn in 2007 at the regional semifinals of [...]
His name is Brian Pittman, and you can purchase his work at Bliss Home on Market Square; here is a detail from the drawing just around the corner from the Square:
Fun in the water fountain this morning; I love how the child in the foreground appears to be levitating:
The facade of the Emporium on Gay [...]
Found this:
It is the work of the “cathedral-drawing guy” Almostgotit mentions in her comment on my July 26th post; anybody know his name?