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Here in the Grove it's Music Weekend.  Though often overlooked by some, the children's recital is always one of the high points.

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Seen through its ripply old glass exterior windows, the interior of the Town Hall catches the setting sun.  It is the natural gathering place where we meet for all sorts of functions, but when empty this most public of our spaces takes on an intensely private feel.

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given how ridiculously soggy wet this year has been it really didn't come as a surprise when the temperature went down for the precipitation to have continued ( Read more... )

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one of the high points of the reception following the halloween parade came when the children sat down in a circle for a spooky story -- with a tactile and olfactory overlay that produced these facial expressions:

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McCathran Hall

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one afternoon of non-rain was all it took to allow some beautiful light.

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the Circle

Japanese Maple leaves when stacked allow layers of light to create compositions like this. 

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two views of the same small flower, found this afternoon on the Center Street side of the Hall grounds.

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McCathran Hall Grounds

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McCathran Hall

is it not so that a grouping of stars is a constellation, even when they are all Stars of Bethlehem? 

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ah, yes, the dandelion seed head.  look at one and what do you see?  Expo '67 in Montreal, the Star Wars® Death Star, the AT&T logo, a natural construction that surely was engineered by Buckminster Fuller himself.

such a tempting target for the lens. 
and trite beyond all endurance.

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one of Sunday's respites from weekend rain afforded this chance to admire all that's in bloom, not the least of which is the redbud.

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McCathran Hall

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another diffuse light image.

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McCathran Hall

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