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We went to Connecticut for five days to visit family and friends. It was a trip full of memories – good ones and not-so-good ones. Interesting to notice what I remembered, what I never would have remembered without being prompted, what I had no memory of. We had dinner with my siblings and niece and her kids in “Harbor Point” – a newly developed area of Stamford jutting out into Long Island Sound. It was like Disneyworld. We used to ride our bicycles down there and I didn’t recognize anything from previous visits. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also rode the train into New York City to meet my friend. The museum we were going to visit (the Metropolitan Museum) was closed, so I will look at the catalog for the Weaving Abstraction exhibit in pdf instead of in person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Weaving Abstraction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We went to another museum (MoMA) and saw the K\u00e4the Kollwitz<\/a> exhibit. There’s a lot I could write about it, but I wasn’t very focused. I was mainly enjoying spending time with my friend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We saw this pileated woodpecker working on a stump outside a strip mall in Darien, Connecticut. I couldn’t believe it. It was like being visited by a god. Sam was driving and saw it first. He backed up (luckily no one behind us) so I could see it. I took a few pictures; this was the least blurry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now back home. The plants are expressing themselves exuberantly. It’s all I can do to absorb it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the poppies which self-seeded in the hoophouse. They love it in there. The fat pods will burst into bloom next week sometime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The kale in the hoophouse has bolted and is flowering. The bees love it. It is a jungle of yellow blossoms in there. I might just let everything in there go to seed. Could it become a self-sufficient garden? On the other hand, I planted a few tomatillo seedlings and a ground cherry in there, which will need some space soon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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