A quick hello before taking off tomorrow for Utah and Sonja's graduation day. Lots to celebrate today. Aidan and John are heading off to Virginia for Aidan's summer music camp with lots of new packing paraphernalia to make his first stay away from home a good one. Today, we celebrated that and Keoni's birthday, mine that is coming up waaaaayyyy too fast, Keoni's concertmaster assignment  today for Kennedy Center Summer Music Institute...

Aidan chose the Harleysville Hotel to celebrate with wings.

I've just finished packing most of what I'll take with me tomorrow to Utah. Whew!

Soccer season began yesterday evening.

Aidan and I enjoyed some more drawing together...

Aidan's getting more and more adept with his pencils.

I'm enjoying soft pastels.

The next day he was inside his room for hours. Later, I found what he had been doing...

Lionel Messi is now up on the dining room wall. 

Aidan put his Nutella and berry crepes on the menu one morning.

Toby's eating habits gave him tapeworms so he has had to have them purged from his system. He really didn't care as he stretched out in the heat...

Cat of Pompeii.

The Queen Anne's Lace are everywhere again. Remarkable how they are regarded as an invasive, undesirable weed. (They came from England.) Yet, they've been here a couple of centuries. I love how they grace intersection corners, utility pole bases, roadways, fences, and fields.