A Crowded Garden

 

AMS had a full house for Octopus's Garden last weekend. This the the school's annual talent show and coffee house. The menu was impressive and the skits and songs were fun. The event raises money so support the upcoming 18-day field trips.

Click on this to see it bigger (or it might not make any sense).

Chinese Balloon over Celo (from Janet Frazier)

 

From Janet Frazier: "While doing my yoga practice yesterday morning, I saw the balloon pass over. If you look in the cloud just above the leafless tree you can see the small white dot. View is from our deck on Halls chapel Road looking out over the Blacks."

Jeff and Robin are going to teach at Penland (more cabbage)

Jeff and I are teaching a photo workshop at Penland this summer. It's called "Photography in the 4th Dimension" because we are going to use the connection between photography and time to unpack some fundamental photographic concepts. We made this silly video as a promotion.

Conversing with Cabbage

 

Sunday Morning Science

Jeff imitates a water molecule (two oxygens attached to one hydrogen) during a  science inquiry with Shaw and Grey at the first Sunday brunch of the winter.
 

Scrabble 23

 

Essie and Nancy in a very friendly battle for Scrabble supremacy at the 2023 Cabin Fever University Scrabble Tournament, one of our longest running events. 

Essie took home the trophy. 

Dreams Die Hard, they do

 

Another year begins, and for the first time since 2020, my day started early at the Arthur Morgan School kitchen. It's great to be there when the first morning sun of the year hits the Blacks. 

The occasion, of course, was the return of the Dreams Die Hard Diner, a New Year's tradition since 1983. Click on this picture to make it larger and find Sarah and Jody. 

A few people had to leave before we took this picture, but these are some of the folks who put it on. Three generations of Dreyers this year, also five people who were born in Yancey or Mitchell (Evan is missing from this picture).