Friday

It's 58 degrees and seems to have stopped raining - finally!

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"I must be LOST, 'cause I've been FOUND!"

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

"I'm a friendly, medium brown dog with camouflage collar and attached broken leash clip. I've been at the Barnes Homestead on the corner of Rte 20 and Beaver Creek for 3 days. If you want me back, you can reach Brian Barnes at 841-8256 or Tom Barnes 841-4880 (I visit both homes. ) Thank you!"

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Just a quick post, this morning, to help the above "writer" and to remind you that there's plenty going on at St. Bernard's Catholic Church both today and tomorrow:

From Fr. Tom: "Proceeds of these events will help defray the cost of sending a group of our teenagers to a week-long youth conference at the University of Notre Dame (yea, the one in Indiana!!!!)"

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- and there's music to please everyone:

Kelly Beloin sent me this poster, saying: "Bob Belouin’s band, "Crushing June," is playing at
"12 North" Friday night. He plays lead guitar and sings."

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Proving that polyphonic choral music is alive and well in Central New York,

the celebrated ensemble

"Tapestry - the All-centuries Singers"

(with Waterville's own Gail Prentice!)

will present a program of Brazilian sacred music

at the Chenango Music Festival in Hamilton

on Saturday, June 20, 11:00 am, in the Baptist Church on the green.

No admission charge.

AND

Sponsored by Westminster Presbyterian Church

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"And then there were none."

We can't call in Agatha Christie, so we'll never know what happened, but - when Jody arrived yesterday afternoon and looked at the empty nest, he simply shook his head and, rather sadly, took down his stepladder and and tripod. Even the last of the little vireos was gone.

All we can say is, "We let nature take it's course."

If you are watching the nest of an unusual variety of bird, please let me know and I'll forward the word to Jody!

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One day when the sun was shining, Jeff Reynolds took this picture in the Library Garden with his "new little Fuji point and shoot" which he says he "likes a lot."

(Thanks, Jeff!)

I think that Jeff has a great "eye" for color and composition - and now I know where he got it! His mother, Rhea Evans Reynolds, is an extraordinry painter ---- a "colorist" ---- and several dozen of her huge canvases are currently on display at the Cooperstown Art Association.

Click HERE to see some of the works in this retrospective!

(The colors just blow my mind!)

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Now - Have a Great Weekend!