Maria had a triumphal and richly deserved day of affirmation showing and demonstrating her art at the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake. I got to haul stuff in and out, get lunch and be annoyingly proud. I wandered around a bit taking photos too, some of a sidewalk art show at Indian Lake that was atmospheric, to say the least. I don’t really love the Adirondacks, dense, tall, forbidding, with so many abandoned and decaying homes and cabins, so much poverty and struggle. The beautiful mountain area has been utterly abandoned by the outside world, except for some summer tourists and hikers. It is beautiful to photograph though.

I will put up photos of Maria’s great day shortly, and an album on Facebook.