2018 Life Logs, Day 294—Celebrating Fall
Date: Sunday, October 21, 2018
Weather: Rain Early, Then Partly Sunny and Chilly; High 48, Low 32 degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
Today was spent celebrating the fall season. I went with Heather, Jed, Sam, Jonah, and Ollie to Highfield Hall
to see an exhibit sponsored by the Studio Art Quilt Associates of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Here’s how Highfield advertised the exhibit: “We spend our lives moving from building to building, often focused on our destination, overlooking the beauty of the natural world that surrounds us. This exhibit requires that artists step outside, literally, to observe this natural environment and then share the textures, colors and patterns as well as the emotions it evokes using fiber as the medium to communicate their vision.” Highfield is a three-story mansion that was built in the Nineteenth Century and is now a center for the arts in Falmouth. Today we got to see the quilted pieces on the first floor plus a display of tapestries on the second floor. The quilted pieces depicted all sorts of things in nature. I loved the teasel (like a thistle)
and Heather loved a piece depicting a hurricane.
Ollie liked a piece depicting a classic car on a beach at sunset,
while Sam relaxed in the ballroom enjoying a bright red and blue piece called Water Grasses.
I was also taken with a depiction of an osprey nest.
When we traveled to the second floor, Jonah found a three-dimensional tapestry called Boxes that he loved
and Jed really liked one called Green Seaweed.
The boys enjoyed the reading room on the second floor and the museum room on the first floor where they learned about the history of the mansion.
Unfortunately, Sam was not feeling good and by the end of the visit it was apparent that he had a temperature and was achy all over. Looks like he has the flu for the second time since the beginning of the school year. I’ll be staying with him tomorrow as he certainly can’t go to school with a fever. When we got back to Heather and Jed’s, I had to run home to do a few things, but Heather worked with Jonah and Ollie to carve their pumpkins.
Sam’s will have to wait until he is feeling better. I returned with a salad for dinner and Heather made a fall favorite for dinner, Afghan kaddo. There is an Afghan restaurant in Cambridge that serves this, but Heather’s is better. She bakes pumpkin baked with sugar and serves it covered with a spiced meat sauce and garlic and minted yogurt. Delicious. It was the perfect dinner on this very chilly fall day.
