I just came back from one of the most brilliant and wonderful early music concerts ever! It was held at Trinity Episcopal, Staunton, which is a fine sacred space with decent acoustics. It was tremendous. Music featured included Telemann’s Overture in B-flat Major, Ferrandini’s Il Pianto di maria (with the absolutely wonderful mezzo-soprano Jennifer Lane, who was actually late for the performance and kept everyone waiting!), and Vivaldi’s Gloria, with the James Madison University Chorus, which was also wonderful.

Now this is our Grand Marquee:

And this is me on my horse!

Me trying to pack my luggage into our thankfully large trunk:

And a cute motorcycle riding dog in downtown Staunton

A nice Roman Catholic Church: St. Francis of Assisi, in downtown Staunton

Um: a playground in the park!

Me and my sister on the see-saw

We were wondering if we qualify for 8 and under…

Me at the Glass blowing factory with a glass spider:

Dinner with my sister at Beverley’s restaurant, a really nice place.

Me with the organ of Trinity Episcopal in the background. It looks German Baroquish, but I sadly didn’t get to hear it.

Me on the swing at Trinity Episcopal’s playground:

More of me at the playground!

The concert starts: the Baroque Ensemble playing Telemann

The James Madison Choir singing madrigals during the really extended intermission.

Kyrie eleison

So last night/this early morning I landed in BWI. This morning we drove all the way down to Virigina in our Grand Marquee (picture to come later).

I’m in Staunton now and having fun. Went horse riding in the afternoon. I’ll get the photoes uploaded eventually, but it may take a while, cos they are on my sister’s camera. The horse riding was exhilerating for the first five minutes, fun for the next ten, and then boring for the rest. Lol. I think the horse didn’t like me: it kept deliberately walking under low hanging trees with really huge branches so I had to keep ducking if not I would fall off. Horse riding should be prefably done in areas without trees.

Kyrie eleison.

My bags are packed I’m ready to go…

Well, I’m ready to depart! Really, sort of. Away to Baltimore! Some pictures from the last time I was there:

Me and the Washington Monument, which is right outside Peabody:

Me at the JHU Homewood Campus:

The famous Peabody Library

Can’t wait to start school! It’ll be nice to have a sense of normalcy again.

Link- What I’m Pondering: the Holy Father writes: “there is no greater richness than to enjoy friendship with Christ”

Kyrie eleison

Went shopping just now! I have absolutely fallen in love with Nike Golf Shirts. I also bought a Kenneth Cole Reaction bag really cheaply! Swoosh

This is the museum of glass:

This is me at Fort Defiance, Tacoma, with the Ducks/Geese/Whatever

Me and my mother in the Rose Garden:

More flowers:

In Vancouver:

Me with Totem Poles:

Me and Sun Yat-Sun

Kyrie eleison

As it fell out upon one day,
Rich Divès made a feast,
And he invited all his friends,
And gentry of the best.

Then Lazarus laid him down and down
And down at Divès’ door:
“Some meat and drink, brother, Diverus,
Bestow upon the poor.”

“Thou’rt none of my brothers, Lazarus,
That liest begging at my door;
No meat, nor drink will I give thee,
Nor bestow upon the poor.”

Then Lazarus laid him down and down,
All under Divès’ wall:
“Some meat, some drink, brother Diverus,
For hunger starve I shall.”

“Thou’rt none of my brothers, Lazarus,
That liest begging at my gate;
No meat, no drink will I give thee,
For Jesus Christ His sake.”

Then Divès sent out his hungry dogs,
To bite him as he lay;
They hadn’t the power to bite one bite,
But licked his sores away.

Then Divès sent to his merry men,
To worry poor Lazarus away;
They’d not the power to strike one stroke,
But flung their whips away.

As it fell out upon one day,
Poor Lazarus sickened and died;
There came two angels out of heaven,
His soul therein to guide.

“Rise up! rise up! brother Lazarus,
And go along with me;
For you’ve a place prepared in heaven,
To sit on an angel’s knee.”

As it fell out upon one day,
Rich Divès sickened and died;
There came two serpents out of hell,
His soul therein to guide.

“Rise up! rise up! brother Diverus,
And come along with me;
There is a place provided in hell
For wicked men like thee.”

Then Divès looked up with his eyes
And saw poor Lazarus blest;
“Give me one drop of water, brother Lazarus,
To quench my flaming thirst.”

“O, was I now but alive again
The space of one half hour!
O, that I had my peace again
Then the devil should have no power.”

So yesterday night I went for Aida with my sister which was just a marvellous production. It was amazing, and I wish I could be here for the entire season.

Outside McCaw Hall: one can see the Space needle faintly in the background

Close up of us outside in the gardens:

My sister and her booster seat:

Inside the Opera Hall:

Kyrie eleison

Si navicula
Iesus sit in, motus magnus
Perfundet non te.