Nanny sent this picture of her lilac bush 
Our House and Hayfields As I began to work on my artwork inventory sheet yesterday afternoon, I started to realize that all the available paintings were not hanging in the barn, and although I had riffled through all the empty packing boxes, I missed two of the largest boxes still with paintings in them..... and Debbie had also. I finally found four of the largest paintings still on the shelf and took them to the barn. Saturday I'll rehang the show to get them onto the wall. And it looked so good...... And very full. But I sure had wondered why there was hardly anything large hanging out there, so at least I do have some big ones. And if I would finish them, there would be a couple more nearly done and will have some new major paintings. This year I want to make more of an effort to see if anyone is interested in a dozen or so pieces of artwork I have that is done by other artists. So took them all out to the barn as well. How to display - and price - them is a good question. It must be done, like the other purging going on. Would rather have them go to someone who likes them, than have Joe dispose of them.
Cousin Iris called from Houston yesterday and we had a nice visit.
Then Carol from Oncology called. Very good news was that Tuesday's scan showed improvement again this time. I was not so enthused when she said Dr. Ward wants me to continue with the Full Fury chemo treatments. So I go back on Tuesday to start another cycle. I'll try riding the shuttle again, and have to catch it out at Stanley Junction (Daniel). I'll meet it at 9:20 a.m. and it returns at 5 p.m. - still not sure if it leaves the hospital at 5 or gets to the Junction at 5. Since I've been sitting in Oncology for six hours with the Full Fury, I'm not sure how this is going to work, but Carol says it will work. It's getting hard not to be negative about going for more chemo when I've been doing it so long now. If I felt better for a while and could get some things done- especially like painting - it would be different.
This morning I'll go in to Pinedale to meet with Mixed Media for the small painting group at Rendezvous Point. We'll have lunch there - baked chicken is on the menu. It will be great to get together with the friends again. I'm not sure whether to take the pastels, or work on some of the unfinished pieces in oil paint. At 10 a.m. I'll go to a meeting for the Community Fine Arts Center where we will see the revised architect drawings for the Center and give our input. It's very exciting to see a beautiful community center becoming a reality. The next big step is working to inform the community how the sales tax will work and that it will be a good thing to vote for this fall.
Today is the birthday of the man who gave us Charlotte's Web, E.B. (Elwin Brooks) White, (books by this author) born in Mount Vernon, New York (1899). He was a writer for many years for The New Yorker magazine. He later moved with his wife to a farmhouse in Maine. E.B. White wrote, "Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace."
Confucius said, "An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity."
"It is a bad plan that admits of no modification." (Publilius Syrus)
"More of me comes out when I improvise." (Edward Hopper)
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