Maria helped me take four of artist Matt Chinian’s lovely landscapes over to the Mansion Activities Room, where they will have a home for a long time. We left them on a sofa until Bonnie and Paryese figure out exactly where to put them.

Matt has donated four paintings to hang on the walls of the Mansion Activities Room. I paid him $300 for three (he wouldn’t take any payment for one), which is a fraction of what they are worth.

One by one, the residents filed in to look at them, and ooooh and aaaaah. They are very touched that a well-known local artist would donate these paintings to them. So am I.

The residents came up one by one to look at the photos. They were very much impressed and grateful to be able to look up to them every day. At Least three of them were painted on Mansion grounds.

They loved that.

Two more paintings – a pastel and watercolor, both painted by Artist Jackie Thorne of Glens Falls, N.Y – are coming as soon as we find frames for them.

As we left, we noticed that the two raised garden beds we bought a couple of weeks ago are still sitting alongside the garden with no soil. The planting season will end soon, and the Mansion staff is overwhelmed.

Maria and I ran over to the hardware store and got six bags of good raised bed planting soil. We went over to the Mansion and poured them in. Planting season is coming to an end, but the people in Memory Care still have time to get their seeds in.