A fun day

We had a very busy Saturday, starting with grocery shopping and then going to the library to turn on all the lights.  Later in the morning, we met some dear friends, both also retired librarians who live in the Burlington area, at our library to see the Light Up the Library display.  Bob loves Christmas and enjoyed bidding on various goodies in the display.  We all went out to lunch and caught up on goings on.  It's always fun to get together with them.  

Later in the afternoon day, some other local friends, Bill and Diane, invited us to go to an art gallery opening of an acquaintance.   Cara Armstrong is a professor of architecture whose recent sabbatical on neuroscience and architecture resulted in a series of digital paintings.  She draws on in iPad and pops paint into the spaces using a program.  These paintings were all about 4' x 5' and very interesting.  At one time she quilted her drawings but now uses digital art.  Here are a few of her works, with my favorite first.

I can see this as a quilt, with the very detailed drawing of the farm painstakingly done.

Can you see the quilt making inflluence in these two?

The last painting reminds me of Montpelier with its mountainous neighborhoods.

We had a great time at the show and enjoyed Cara's talk very much.   Afterwards, Bill and Diane wanted to go to a local diner for a bite to eat.  I just had a glass of wine because I was still full from lunch.  We stayed at the diner until closing time, talking about all sorts of things.