Blue Sponge Weekend Round-Up

Here's a summary of the weekend. Above is another photo from our concert at Wolf Trap where we say pops conductor Marvin Hamlisch do a show about his work and work that inspired him. I posted a photo yesterday of me prior to the concert, and this is one I took of Shane relaxing before the concert. We were disappointed with the show. Marvin played the songs like he was trying to catch a bus. They all seemed very rushed. It was mostly all music, which was fine, but he had a so so singer on some of the numbers. We left before the end to beat the rush, though I had never seen so few people at a concert there.

On Sunday, we went to see my Mom. She lives in a small town in Maryland near the Pennsylvania border. It is about 2 hours north of DC. We took her and my sister out to lunch in a restaurant in Port Deposit, MD. In the photo above, Shane and my Mom are sitting on her patio waiting for my sister to arrive. You might notice her very tall lilies, which have amazing blooms on them.

Here's my Mom, still on the patio. She has got quite a green thumb.

We went to the Susky Grill, a restaurant on the Susquehanna River in Port Deposit, and we all had crab cake sandwiches. They were very good and the restaurant was very nice. It was the first time all of us, except my Mom had been there. She had gone before with the Blue Birds. They are like the Red Hat Ladies, but only different. My only complaints about the restaurant were the service was a bit slow and they made up put our umbrella down and it got rather hot. That is what the waitress is telling the couple near us in this photo. The wind picked up a bit and they were afraid the umbrellas would make the tables topple over. You'd think they could figure out a way to secure the darn umbrellas. It got very hot out in the sun. Otherwise, it was a nice place. We'll stay under the shaded porch next time.

When we got back to my Mom's house, I gave her a lesson in scanning photos onto her computer. She wanted copies of some family shots my uncle (her brother) had. This shot is my grandmother standing with Flossy (on the right). Doesn't she look like Janet Gaynor (my grandmother, not the horse)? How many of you know who Janet Gaynor was?