New Hampshire Visit

We had a good visit seeing lots of friends and very successful AP presentations. Saturday- Monday it poured - worst driving I recall in a very lone time getting to NH from Boston but no trees across the road! Had a very nice dinner at Paul's with Alice and Peter and Paul's friend, Pia, who he has been seing for a while. (They went to visit her family in India a few years ago.) Stayed with the Lemelands and Anne for three nights each. Had dinner with the Eddys and got lots of news of the boys - both have new houses, both have jobs - Nils is working on a major nursing school project for the Univ. of Utah, and Tavis has a new baby, Corbin, so the Eddys are excited about their two grandchildren. Nils and mary have no kids.

Charles seems in decent shape after all the cancer treatment of the past year. Jane as busy with peace movement as ever and looking well. Anne is walking much better after two knee replacements and Bunny continues to be sharper on each visit. Anne arranged a dinner for us, Chases, and Lemelends at the nursing home and Bunny was right in the conversation with his old spirit and sense of humour. As we are losing 'it' Bunny seems to get better on each visit.

We had a nice lunch with Kelly - Priscilla was at a retreat - on Saturday and he sent love to all and was taken with the family calendar photos and the grown aspects of all the grandchildren. Mom also saw several"girlfriends" and I had lunch with a former co-worker at the NH History museum so we covered a lot. We'll have a photo or two later but no videos!

Paul met us at the Currier on Thursday for lunch and a visit to an exhibit on watercolor in america from colonial times to the present. It was interesting but much of the later work wasn't very appealing to me - mainly abstract and not much subtle use of color. It was advertised as Homer to Hiopper but there were only three paintings of each man in the exhibit - disappointing. the highlight for me were several Andrew Wyeths paintings -Maine landscapes and two of a boat overturned on the beach. Very effective - one was watercolor and one tempura so you could see the contrast between opaque and translucent paint in the hands of a master.

Everyone sent love to all of you.

The photo on this posting was taken by the library's organizer of all the concerts. Boden and I had a nice time at the latest event just before we left.