A Funeral and an Art Show

Tonight's blog title might sound like a possible movie title...but rather it is a summary of our day! This morning we went to a funeral of a long time church member. Then we headed down the road to Lebanon, TN to our daughter's one-"man" art show...the culmination of her Master's in Art degree from Cumberland University. As you can see it was a bit of family reunion as Nathan and Kathy and family came too. Tonight's photos show a bit of her show. I'll show some closer up photos another night. By the way her name is spelled wrong on the sign...should read Melany! Oh, well, Melany is pretty used to her name not being spelled correctly! It was a very nice show. It was all based around butterflies and moths...an interest of Melany's since she was a little girl...one of her early memories was going with her daddy to catch butterflies with a big net. Another of her memories was raising butterflies from egg to caterpillars to butterfly or moth. So she developed her show around a butterfly theme and used multi-media. The large moth pictured was hanging from the ceiling...definitely her show was larger than life! It was a very good and very unique show...good eats (Wade and Melany are good cooks too!) and a fun time together as a family. Melany now has to produce a book (using photos and descriptions of the art work in the show) for her thesis and she will be finished! After the art show we headed back to Murfreesboro and stopped off and all had ice cream...a special treat for Grandparents Day for Goosey (Woody) and me...that was enjoyed by all! Three of the adults ended up with chocolate ice cream on their clothes and it wasn't Woody, Nathan or Kathy! Alex, Esther and Elijah rode with us to get ice cream. Then when we headed home Graham, Joy, and Elijah rode with us. It has been a busy day. Now I need to head in to put final touches on tomorrow's Sunday School lesson. Oh, one more quick thing that was so cute that happened this morning. At eight o'clock sharp our front door opened and it was Elijah. He asked if we were ready to go. We asked where we were going and Elijah excitedly said "to the art show!" He was ready!