Wild and Windy

This is how it looked just before 5:00PM from our roof deck on this wild, rainy, windy day —can’t quite see the white caps on the lake but you can appreciate wind from the south (left).

Our day to pick up Fiona —happy as ever, she drew, played with the dolls and we played games, ate pizza and read a book.

In case you are interested in the painting I mentioned yesterday, I am going to link a few pix from last night’s most delightful dinner at Canlis Restaurant….it’s a beautiful spot across the lake from where we live,(it's at the left side of the bridge behind the poplar tree) and an elegant place to dine- it was so much fun with these nice friends..... (couldn’t figure out an easy way to blip it today….) The painting I did for S’s 80th birthday is the color page from Nahum Gutman’s classic book, ‘Lobengulu King of Zulu,” written during his visit to South Africa in 1934 and serialized in a magazine in 1935-36 and then published as a book, one of very few children’s books written in Hebrew. Gutman was born in Russia but moved with his family to Ottoman Palestine as a child and became an artist known for his paintings and mosaics. S loved this book as a child with it’s very odd animals and made up people…and wanted to have the painting for his “2nd childhood”… it was a surprise. :-) The rest of the book is apparently in black and white, somewhat like the drawings S brought to show us (here on the link)…. And if you get this far and look at the photos on the link , notice the identical red glasses on H and my good friend J! J copied H.:-)