Mockingbird Hill Cottage
Today will be the day.
We’ve prayed and we’ve watched her decline rapidly. In the past few days, she has had hardly anything to eat.
We’re beside ourselves with grief and we haven’t even taken her to the animal hospital yet.
She’s in a lot of pain and she’s telling us it’s time. I’m home. I’m here. And I couldn’t not be here when we say goodbye. So it’s time.
Please pray for our girl and for us today as we take this journey.
Back home.
Scout isn’t doing well.
We know a decision will have to made in the not-too-distant future. All we can do is pray for guidance, because from one minute to the next, our feelings and ‘intuition’ change. So we prayed together last night to know when it’s time. To do what is right for our girl. To do what is humane.
But right now, she’s sleeping in the ‘tunnel.’ She’s beautiful. She’s my daughter. And I’m just going to stay in the moment.
Being in the midst of my work in Hartford, knowing I have to leave again on Monday, certainly has an influence on everything. Today, Don has a singing gig and, thankfully, I’ll be here to watch over Scoutie. We’ll spend the day together.
I’m overwhelmed by sadness and by too much loss.
But right now, it’s sunny out and I’m with my husband and my little girl.
Right now, all is well.
Happy Sunday.
Ready for a picture heavy post? By popular request, I’m sharing more of the photos I took the other day at the Art Museum.
Here goes.
This is the first gallery you see as you enter the museum. The lady in the foreground was a longtime employee of the museum and the artist Alex Katz made this in honor of her. It’s titled, “Margie.” There’s a photo of her standing next to the figure. (1971)
The figure in the background is made from rugs. “Sound suit” by Nick Cave (2009)
In the same gallery, She-ba, by Romare Bearden (1970)
Silhouettes, cut from paper, by the artist Kara Walker. (2013)
Salvador Dali – Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938)
René Magritte – Les Intermittences du Coeur (The Fickleness of the Heart) (1950)
Pablo Picasso – The Artist (1963)
Winslow Homer – Rocky Coast (Maine Coast) (1882-1900)
John Singer Sargent – Ruth Sears Bacon (I love this.) (1887)
Henri Matisse – The Ostrich Feather Hat (1918)
Claude Monet – The Beach at Trouville (1870)
Claude Monet – Nymphéas (Water Lilies) – (1907)
Vincent Van Gogh – Self Portrait (1887)
Franz Hals – Portrait of Joseph Coymans (1644)
One of the portrait galleries.
The museum has a vast collection of American Decorative Arts, where I encountered some of my favorite designers:
Charles and Ray Eames
Marcel Breuer
Frank Lloyd Wright
Gustav Stickley
It’s an amazing and wondrous museum and if I get over there again before my stay here ends, I’ll take more photos, okay?
In the meantime, I’m supposed to go home tomorrow and we’re getting at least 6 inches of heavy, wet snow today. Do you sense a pattern here? If I decide to make the trip home…it snows.
Cross your fingers for me!
Happy Friday.
