It’s cold out there but the sun is shining. Huzzah!

My Skype sessions went well yesterday. I have two more this afternoon. The connection was great and it really was as if I was in the room with each of the actors. No complaints here.

Random art from around the house:

In the upstairs half bath. (There’s a lot more there, but the sun coming from the east made it impossible to take a picture. More later.)

I combined these framed pieces because their frames were so similar. The framed landscape with “Trust in the name of the Lord” was my grandmother’s. I cannot remember a time it wasn’t hanging in one of her spare bedrooms. I’m sure it’s much older than I. It’s a bit fragile nowadays, and priceless.

I found the other print just last year in an antique shop. I have a fondness for these circa 40s-50s flower prints. I have another in the downstairs bathroom. This one drew me in because of the brown background, the beautiful flowers, and the frame.

Our plan is to cover these walls with all sorts of framed pieces. We already have a contract that Don signed when one of his songs sold, an award that he received, a costume rendering for a costume I wore in grad school (designed by my friend, Richard,) the signed program from King Lear  starring Ian McKellen, and two other pieces that I’ll show you soon.

And this, in our bedroom:

This is a large painting and it lives on the enclosed chimney that extends into the room. I knew as soon as I saw it that it should go there. It’s an oil painting that I found in San Diego at Vignettes. I was out there temporarily about 10 years ago, coaching the Shakespeare Summer Rep, and every time I visited Vignettes, I would stare at it. It was more than I wanted to spend, or at least, felt I could spend at the time. Lori, the owner, would chat with me about it, so she knew how much I loved it. After a couple of months, I took a picture of it and sent it to Don, wanting to get his input. Finally, with his support, I made the decision to buy it and I drove to Vignettes. It was on the wall behind the cash register. When I told Lori that I finally was going to buy it, she said she had been thinking about me because it had been purchased  the day before and all Lori could think about while she was completing the sale was how sad I was going to be. But the person buying it was also interested in another piece and ended up going with that one and my cherubs stayed safely in the shop.

Whew!

I almost lost it. I took it back to the apartment, hung it over the fireplace, and when it was time to go back home, I had it packed and shipped. Another lesson in “If you really want it, don’t wait too long, it could disappear.”

I love, love, love it.

Happy Wednesday.