Oh my gosh, I'm so far behind!

Life has been happening at a record pace these days. A great deal of May was spent working on lesson plans for the three summer camps I'll be teaching at the Dallas Museum of Art. I have also had a festival and a trip to Colorado thrown into the mix.

Here is Lily at the Scarborough Rennaisance Festival we all went to. She is some kind of mystical character. Notice the long sword on her back. Her boyfriend gave that to her.

My sister Ruth joined us. She looked so pretty and oh my, she has gorgeous hair!

Here I am with Lily's griffin on my shoulder. It was hot and I was sort of melting all day long.

Jeff and I. He really loves his kilt - he looks good in it too. Jeff has a wee bit of real Scottish blood flowing though his veins. They wanted him to walk in the parade, but he didn't want to. Maybe next year. This was our fourth festival - we really love going and dressing up. I actually take notes of the shows we go to for my storytelling programs. I learn a lot watching other live performers.

My trip to Houston with Jeff

Jeff had a bowling tournament in Houston a little over a week ago. I went with him and we had a wonderful, mini vacation together. On Saturday while he bowled during the day, I stayed in the hotel room and worked on my lesson plans for the summer camps I'll be teaching at the Dallas Museum of Art. Afterwards in the late afternoon, we went to the The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. IT IS AN AWESOME MUSEUM. It is also incredibly huge. We only had three hours there, but boy did we make the most of it. Here I am in front of a marvelous painting by Matisse. It is so exciting to see paintings by the masters.

Miro.

Pablo Picasso. Weird guy.

What is she looking at I wonder.

The lady has a protruding bottom lip. She must not be wearing her dentures.

What a decadent, lulling figure this yellow man is. It would be fun to create a story with a character based on this image.

We couldn't use flash in the museum, so these images have an odd, beige color to them. We would have taken more, but we were in too much of a hurry trying to see as much of it as possible before they closed. Someday, we need to go back and see all of it!

George Jetson Goes to Houston

Remember the "The Jetson's"? I loved that cartoon. Our hotel was in an upscale community in Houston. We were located by super fancy stores, the Galleria Mall, Furriers, we saw lots of limo's driving folks around.

I noticed that the streetlights and signs seemed to float over the intersections - COOL! This was taken during the day - it is way cooler at night.

Best dang restaurant ever - The New York Delicatessen. They bring a dish with three different kinds of pickles to much on while you look over the menu. The food was VERY New York, very traditionally Jewish and soooooooo good!!! We went there for dinner. Liked it so much we went back for breakfast the next day.

While we were eating breakfast, a super long Humvee Limo drove up. Who was in it? A few lovely Arab women dressed in Western, designer clothes and their children. They all rode in the limo to the restaurant for breakfast.

Not all of Houston is lovely.

While leaving Houston, we drove past miles & miles of this. Very ugly! I wonder what the cancer rate is in the population who live near this area.