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| Me and Shirley Lane- friends for 22 years! |
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| Meet me at the Rocket! |
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| Nyree and Mia |
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| me and Mia |
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| Rock Star |
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| My favorite piece from the art- this is absolutely marvelous graphite! |
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| I can't believe this is painted, it looks so real! |
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| My second favorite art piece |
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| Nyree's lion, Mia's Sonic and my bat pumpkins |
Fair weekend! October 20, 2012. I have not been to the SC State Fair in, like, 11 years! And, good thing, too, because of fair FOOD!!!!!! OMG! I had the Philly cheese mega-dripping-and-falling-apart sandwich and (a couple of hours later) the BIGGEST bavarian creme elephant ear EVER!
I began my wonderful weekend that Friday about noon at the Grecian Garden Restaurant where I met up with Shirley for lunch. This is her autumn jaunt stateside to visit her girls, and we missed each other this past spring "whilst" she helped Rockie,her older daughter, plan her wedding which is taking place this coming spring, 2013. As always, it's sheer joy to spend time with her. After talking non-stop for about 3 1/2 hours, it was time to continue on to my original stop, which was at Nyree's place.
A chance to talk about art, the Universe, web sites, laugh, bounce ideas off one another and revel in each other's company. We've decided bestest friends can be soul mates. Her daughter, Mia, is now 5 yo and is so very bright and imaginative (tho' lazy when it comes to learning things like reading= frustrating) and talks 10,000 miles a minute. In other words, an absolute delight! I can't wait for us to start showing her the world! It was hard to decide which pics of the fair to use. If you've seen one picture of a fair...but I settled on what I deemed representative of the excursion. The photo of the rocket is one of nostalgia. Used to be....all day and all night long, you'd hear announcements for people to "meet your party at the rocket!" I didn't hear it once while there. Why, you might ask? Because everyone, today, has a cell phone.....
Lastly, an art project by all 3 of us ladies. Nyree has, wisely, decided that instead of carving pumpkins (messy) and ending up with mushy, rotten jack-o-lanterns (even messier), that painting and otherwise decorating our pumpkins was the way to go. It seems that such decorating is all the rage, or shall we say, trending, right now. Mia did her part (painting), but the bulk of Sonic was Nyree. Love her lion!!!! And, I ended up doing what I know best - painting an animal portrait. I do love bats! It was an absolutley fantastic weekend. I'm not quite sure when we'll visit again (the New Year after all the holidays?), but I got Nyree on Skype, so maybe we'll get to visit that way till we get to in person.
