Summer relented a bit some of the past week. At least, you could tell it some mornings...

It is nice out on the patio.

...so much so, that it was fun to sit a draw for a bit. And, that began a sequence of drawing times. So nice. More on that later. 

The tiger lilies were over as fast as the Dutch Iris were in the spring. 

Keoni's couple of weeks with the Dali Quartet Summer program led to several performances over this week. Part of his role there now is mentoring the younger players. Puneeth, a friend of Keoni's from PYO whom I chanced to meet on the train from Philadelphia a couple winters ago, is doing the same at Dali. He is following two masters now at Georgia Tech--the violin in their orchestra and Chemical Engineering. It was a treat to see him again at Dali. I met his mother this time.

Puneeth and his mother.

You'll, no doubt, be surprised that Keoni is playing viola. He has branched out and continues with both.

And I captured a quick sketch of Keoni...

Another treat was seeing Aidan again back from Heifetz in Virginia. They drove most of the night in order to have Sunday back at the farm.

11:30 a.m. Sunday. They're pretty tired. Aidan played his cello though so I could hear the difference the three weeks made.
Yes, indeed! there is a wonderful difference. Beautiful.

Aidan says Heifetz was great and he learned a huge amount.

And let's not forget about soccer. Tomorrow, there is a game. He only missed two games as the team did more practice times before the games began last week.

It was fun getting to spend a little time with each of these young men. I had a picnic lunch with Keoni on Lehigh University campus--we had a nice walk looking for eateries before scoring some lunch to eat back at the campus.

At Lehigh's Zoillner Arts Center

Tomorrow will see me start putting together some belongings for a trip to the Iowa State Fair and lots of visiting with cousins, sister Susie and our kissin' cousins.

In one of the entryways at the Arts Center.