Shaw Girl Happenings

Labels: dog, Holidays

Remember that invitation I sent out a couple of months ago about joining together at Allegany State Park for a Autumn breakfast? I am now finally reporting on the gathering! It was a sunny, crisp, fall day, very similar to the family fall gatherings of past.


Alas, you can't smell the aromas of breakfast: cooking pancakes, eggs, and bacon, smearing homemade jams on homemade breads, coffee over on open fire, a table full of food and hungry hikers, the creek in the background.

After breakfast, we drove up to Thunder Rocks and played until a thunderstorm suddenly blew in, then we headed home!




















I was the only Shaw in attendance from the original breakfast. I thought of all of you and you were sorely missed!

More photos, by Jennifer, can be seen here.

Labels: food, nature, party

Matthew and I have just returned from Rochester from the New York State School Music Conference. Matthew was selected to sing in the Mixed Chorus along with 240 of the top high school vocalists in the state. This is the cream of the crop, and to have someone like Matthew from our little school (his class has 47, count 'em, 47 students in it) singing at the same level (or better) as vocalists from performing arts high schools, Long Island, and the Big Apple, was just a thrill. It was definitely, a once in a lifetime experience! The picture above is of the 3 students from our county who made All-State. Matthew is in the middle.

Matthew attended over 20 hours of rehearsal in 3 days, and performed at the Eastman School of Music, the premier music school in the US. I kept busy by attending a bunch of great workshops for music educators, and concert after concert. Click here for a link to a newspaper article about Matthew.






On another note, (get it, another note...) here's a picture of Katie, the Adventurous, getting ready to try her Sea Urchin Nori Roll at the dim sum restaurant next to the Eastman theater. Katie reports that sea urchin is "tasty, but slimy..." She is eager to tell her biology teacher, who has sea urchin in a fish tank at school, that she dined on one of those spiny creatures.

Labels: food, Katie, Matthew, music