Extraordinary French Lunch

Carol, the sister of my dear friend Mary, invited three of us to lunch at the wonderful French restaurant, L'Auberge chez Francois, in Great Falls. What a special occasion! Good food and good company.

L'Auberge chez Francois

The delicious meal consisted of four courses. Pictured above my entree: Harvest Bounty

Carol, Christine, Judy, and Lynn

Another concert

          The February 25 Concert featured the Heimat String Quartet with Patrick Shaughnessy, violin; Aubrey Holmes, violin; Iva Mendoza, viola; and Brendon Phelps, cello. 

          The wonderful program consisted of the following: Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge (1879-1941) and String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 13 by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847).

The Heimat Quartet was founded during the fall of 2014 in Boston, Massachusetts. The members now live in Winchester, VA, and are currently affiliated with Shenandoah Conservatory. 

Wefollowed the concert with lunch at Au Bon Pain. (Above: George and John)

Stimulating Lecture

George, Marie, and I met at GW to hear a lecture by Tyler Anbinder to introduce his book City of Dreams, the 400-Year Epic Story of Immigrant New York. He was an articulate, knowledgeable, and often humorous speaker. We each received a copy of this interesting book.

Above: Marie in her lovely sweater and George in his elegant hat and scarf

Tuesday Concert

Sleep, Dreams, and Awakenings

Today's concert featured the soprano Barbara Hollinshead and lute player Howard Bass. 

The program consisted of the following works:

• Hark, all you ladies by Thomas Campion (1567-1620)
• Rest sweet Nymphs by Francis Pilkington (c. 1565-1638)
• Night Watch by Anthony Holborne (1545-1602)
• Sleep, wayward thoughts by John Dowland (1563-1626)
• A Dreame attributed to Dowland
• Sweet exclude not me - Campion
• The cypress curtain of the night - Campion
• Weep you mo more sad fountains - Dowland
• Beauty sat bathing - Pilkington
• Come Heavy Sleep - transcribed by J.M. Bertram (1943-1997)
• A Fancy, P 6 - Dowland
• The dark is my delight - Anonymous
• Care charming sleep by Robert Johnson (c. 1583-1633)
• Think'st thou then by thy feigning? - Dowland
• Awake sweet love - Dowland

A birthday party

We celebrated Chipo's birthday. Florence brought all of the food. All of it extraordinarily delicious!

Orzo with apricots and feta cheese

lentil dish

After dinner we had "Game Night."

Perry and Chipo

We began with our favorite card game, Old Maid.

Barbara made us all laugh uproariously. She is quite the character when she plays this game. She goes from intense to exuberant!

                                                           Florence was lovely, as usual.


Christine in comfortable clothes over her cast and untamed hair and the perpetually cheerful brothers