Recent doings

Having succeeded with a washcloth for teacher's new baby in kindergarten, Edith and I decided to give her second-grade teacher, who similarly went out on maternity leave this year, a set of three washcloths for her three children. Mrs. D. told a number of stories about how her different children's personalities came out in the bath. Edith had empathy for Sam, the eldest, who apparently fears sea monsters in the tub; swimming lessons were a trial for Edith this year, as she dodged the invisible sharks in the school pool. So she made a tag for each washcloth in her best new cursive, and on Sam's she added a note saying it had been sprayed with sea monster repellent so nothing could get him in the bath. Mrs. D. apparently cried when she read it and later told me it was the most thoughtful end-of-year gift she'd gotten in seven years teaching.

Final day of gymnastics class

A biking fool

Edith and Alice in their private library for the summer (Lower School)

 A princess in her castle garden

We lost a beloved copper beech that was rotting from within (seen from the porch, still standing, below). The night before it was cut down, the girls went out and shouted evacuation notices to all the birds and squirrels in the branches.

 

 On the sidewalk in Princeton, Alice converses with Cornelank West and Albert Edithstein

For some reason the light and everyone's mood wound up just right for photos as we were unloading groceries the other day