Fostering a new renaissance through creativity, authenticity, spirituality, and art
Polly Castor 
I had a great time today plein air painting with our youngest daughter. We picked the most gorgeous day of the week to go, and I let my daughter pick the spot. She chose this waterfall in Redding, CT, which we hadn’t been to for a while and are fond of.
I highly recommend this family run Italian restaurant; there is a reason they are still around after six decades! This was a perfect end to a wonderful day.
Here are my photos of the lovely art glass we saw at the Corning museum…
The museum was a great mix of science and art, suffused with demonstrations among excellent displays.
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
My photos of the beautiful water lilies in the sculpture garden from our visit to the North Carolina Art Museum…
Tonight we ate my husband’s first homegrown cabbage. It was delicious braised in organic cream.
The above dinner our daughter bought me in the airport as a special treat to thank me for my hard work moving her into her apartment…
I learned the name of another new tree: the bottle brush bush. It is out our daughter’s new dining room window in Sacramento, and it is strikingly lovely.
I’ve had the above book Outlander on my shelf for years. I bought it with a Border’s gift card at the store’s closing at the urging of friends that loved it.
I absolutely loved this movie and give it an enthusiastic 5 stars.
Flying home after working hard on our daughter’s new apartment on the other side of the country, I took these photos during a bumpy landing in Chicago…
After an intense several days our daughter’s apartment is starting to come together nicely.
The results are rather good, and I was pleased to see such an improvement. See the “after photos” of all this effort below!
The UBox that we unloaded last Friday did not fit everything, so our daughter was faced with the dilemma of how to get her other things to Sacramento. On the internet she discovered Pac Mail and it was her solution…
Yesterday we discovered the Sacramento Food Co-op near our daughter’s new home. What a wonderful place! When first we visited, I thought it was fun that she was wearing my old food co-op shirt from my college days when I was active in the early food movement.
