Today, I took Daniel and my daughter-out-law to the Bookmill. There is asbestos abatement happening in the room adjacent to my office and noise drove me out yesterday, so I figured today was likely to be a waste if I went in.
It was a rather dreary day that started raining just as we left. We arrived and found that the tables along the windows (and power outlets) were all taken. Luckily, I had the forethought to bring an extension cord, so we took a table in the middle and, fortified by coffee, we got ourselves all set up and set to work.
We spent the day working, writing, and drawing. I worked on a few work things, but spent a fair amount of time working on a haibun I've been trying to finish for months. Daniel worked on writing a new story: I'm trying to get him to finish a story and actually submit it for publication by the end of the holidays. Emilie worked on several drawings, one of which I hope to use for our holiday cards.
We stayed for several hours and eventually packed up and headed back. We stopped briefly in a store with locally produced artwork. I particularly liked several oil paintings of local scenes, including a panorama of the pioneer valley as seen from the top of mount sugarloaf. In any case, it was a nice way to spend the solstice.
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