Saturday, May 14, 2011

New petunias, New Hope, and The Way We Live Now

Last weekend, I planted yellow petunias.
This weekend, white:

The tulips continue to fade away beautifully.


After lunch we drove to New Hope, where I wandered through a gallery of whimsical painted furniture.





Not sure I would want to live with furniture constantly admonishing me to laugh, live life to the fullest, etc. But it's nice to visit these chatty, cheerful pieces in a town named New Hope.

And after that, a poetry reading featuring 86-year-old Gerald Stern. The reading began outdoors and was moved inside the bookstore sponsoring it when a few raindrops began to fall.

Mr. Stern seems filled with hope, living life to the fullest, and was certainly quick to laugh. So the poetry and the painted furniture kind of rhymed.

Tonight, we will watch part 2 of the BBC miniseries based on Trollope's The Way We Live Now, which we are viewing for the second time. I love it when movies and miniseries are so good you can watch them more than once.

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