Summer in Maine

Skipping rocks on the beach at dusk

Sailing on Poppo's boat

Taking the Only One out for a cruise on Penobscot Bay

Cousin Gabriel, soon to be a big brother

Go jump in a lake

Fun with Ferguson kids in Massachusetts

discovering selfies

Cousin Love

Goodman at the plate

Graham is on the Beacon All-Star team. They began their tournament on Saturday with a rainy double header. The weather did not say "summertime" but the boys played their hearts out. 

The Beacon 8U All Stars

Goodman at the plate

Open Studios

Beacon Open Studios happened a few weeks ago. Some highlights: 

some of my smaller encaustic and print pieces that sold. 

Liam in character for his radio show

Graham also in wig character in front of my largest piece

His first museum show

The second graders in the Beacon Schools have been working with artists at the Dia Beacon to learn about the creative process and create conceptual works of art. Today the museum hosted a reception for the show of their work and even Graham was proud of the drawings he made.

This is a really great program where artists come into the schools and give kids a different perspective on learning about art making from the usual "lets color and paint things" point of view. They worked with ideas like making a visual response to a sound or movement, for example.

The artist with one of his drawings

drawings by second graders

a drawing about stacking cups OF COURSE. What else could it be?

some very long drawings in a big room at Dia

Second grade drawings installed

totally toothless

And just like that, there go the baby teeth. Now he speaks with a little lisp and he's learning how to eat without front chompers. Here he is in fine spirits on Mother's Day bringing me his hand-made card while I await my breakfast in bed. Love this kid!

the front tooth is gone

After weeks of dangling, one front tooth has finally left the building! The notoriously camera-shy boy would not sit for a gap-tooth portrait but was happy to be photographed being silly. Here we are, the two of us inside of one very large shirt. The shirt is meant for the coach of Graham's baseball team (that's me) but they gave me a size 2XL, a size more in line with some of the other coaches. I think I'll have to cut out the logo and sew it on to a shirt my size.

side down up

Its a pants on top shirt on the bottom kind of night