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Have been quite busy of late and have not posted for a while. I’ll catch up a little later, the Wordpress upgrade has me a little concerned and will deal with that in the near future too.   

This week I’ve been making boxes.  A lot of them.  These first pieces are for presentations. This is the stack as I began to cover the first four.

I seem to have misplaced the finished boxes  photo.

Another box project involved some fancy covering with marbled papers.  The little boxes are to hold a stack of cards. There are a dozen in total, first uncovered. 

And today they are covered.

Meanwhile, on the front porch an anthurium Scherzianum rothschildii has been in bloom.

I am finally getting around to writing about the Anja and Austin’s Wedding Weekend. Things have been pretty busy and I haven’t had enough time to edit the photos and get them into this blog. Al’s wife Linda put an album of photos online using the Google Picasa album uploader. I looked into it tonight and found a Mac version that works very well. I’m still going to put a few photos here and write some captions, the album can then fill in with other shots. You can get to mine here (the Friday Family Brunch) and see Linda’s (the wedding day).

I intend to get to the Wedding, but that may take a few more days. We all began to gather at an inn in Westport Point, MA Friday about noon. People were arriving from Geneva, Barcelona, the West Coast, Virginia as well as more local states.

After greetings and champagne we began to take places at the tables outside under a tent roof.  This is what I picked up from the buffet. 

While we were eating I tried to get some shots of everyone at each of the six large tables, here are a few of them, the rest are in the Album. Apologies to anyone I may have missed.  

 First, the Bride and Groom, Anja and Austin.

Anja’s cousins Angelia and Dominik with her dad, Adi and Austin’s dad John.

Austin’s Aunts Diane and Trish.

Austin’s grandmother, Mary and Tom.

Colman and Jill

Lindsey and Austin’s Best Man, Luke.

Barbara and Austin’s brother Evan.

Evan’s bride, Suda, they will be married in August, with Sabine and Peggy.

I’m sitting with Mike and Titian,  Taybin and Cat were sitting with us and he took this photo for me. 

 John made an entertaining presentation with pictures of Austin growing up, giving Anja some additional insight about what she’s likely to encounter over the years. It was a pleasant afternoon, the company was good and conversations were lively.

Before leaving, some of us walked out on the inn’s back lawn toward the water. I liked seeing this Witch weathervane in the company of so many American Flags. 

These marbled roses were growing near the spot where Sabine and Gisela were talking. 

Wednesday I went into the city to deliver some work and pick up my order from the casters on 46th street. As I passed by the diamond building site, I saw surveyors working at street level through a window cut into the building site barricade.You can barely see their tripod through the mesh. 

This is the best view I could get of the foundation still being poured since my usual window was occupied. 

Thursday we left Staten Island for Danielson to go to Anja and Austin’s wedding over the weekend.  The traffic was unbelievable for a mid morning Thursday, there was a slow  but moving line waiting for passage on the Washington Bridge. Here’s what it looked like in Fort Lee, after the Washington Bridge traffic, before we got onto the Palisades parkway.

When we got to Danielson, we found out that Al’s show was being opened that night in Norwich.  We had driven north for the show two weeks ago but the show was unceremoniously closed by a Fire Marshall about an hour before people were to arrive. 

We got to Adi and Sabine’s where other family members had arrived from New York and the west coast for the wedding weekend. Colman and I were staying with our friends Pam and Marty. I noticed this inch long moth on the wall outside the kitchen door. It was an unusual shape.

I bothered it a little and it flew down to the deck. 

We had dinner with Pam, Marty and their daughter Kelsey in their home and then they drove us to Norwich for Al’s opening. Norwich is a beautiful place, the city is in the process of a LOT of renovation. Al’s show is in one of the newly renovated spaces. Taybin and Cat were standing just outside the doors when we arrived. 

We were not among the first to arrive, the large room was full of people. Here are Anja and Titian.

It was good to see Al’s work in a gallery setting. These are large ink drawings on acetate, here are a few of the pieces.   

This one is attached to a floor sculpture by a banded string, barely visible in this photo.

Here are Al and Linda. 

 Marty and Pam with Adi and Anja between them. 

It was twilight as we left the show, this is the side of a bank across the street from the show space. I was surprised by the way suburbs were immediately behind the impressive architecture.  

I like the way porches can be a transitional space between public and private places. This one has intricate wood work that was bright in the twilight.