After Mallory, Meg, Little Hope, & I finished up at Falls Park, we walked up to the Peace Center to see the sculptures that were on display there. I thought this one was very appropriate with the Olympics coming up next month.

From there we went on to a fantastic bookstore Hope told Mallory about, a couple of blocks on up the street. It really was one of the coolest ones I’ve been in in a very long time. This was the decor on the bathroom walls. Fantastic.

This is a weird school year, in that all of the kids get out for the summer on different days. Mallory’s last day of exams was last Friday, so today, on her first day of summer break, we celebrated by picking up Meg and then meeting Little Hope in Greenville to take in the Wings Over Greenville exhibit. It was mostly in Reedy Park on the Falls River, and were sculptures by Mexican artist Jorge Marin, mostly of a man with wings that represented different aspects of life. This one was an observer. They really were very cool.

This one was called Wings Over Mexico – a photo op for everyone who came to see the exhibit.

What a beautiful, perfect day we had today, when Clara was confirmed at church. We were up at the front during the actual confirmation, so I wasn’t able to get a picture of the actual service. Mallory did take this picture of us with our girl afterwards, though.

We had fun just being together at Clara’s house for lunch afterwards, and I got this picture of her and Mason together as the Yarbroughs were getting ready to leave. Such a special day.

We had to get out of the lobby so people could start coming in for the next recital, so we got these pictures outside.

This afternoon was June’s dance recital. The last time she took dance was when she was probably four years old, but with her doing virtual school this year, I guess she decided she wanted to give it a try, just to have an outside activity. She had really enjoyed it, and she did such a great job today. I did not, however, do a great job of getting pictures. Sigh.

Photo op after the show.

I really do try not to be a terrible nag, but I have bugged Jeff to death about repairing the steps to our deck ever since a piece broke off of one & Mallory fell on our way to our Smith Family Christmas party. He finally got it done this week, and here I am making my inaugural walk down the steps – heading off to another gathering, this time with friends. We’re calling them the Mallory Steps 🙂

Last night we went to the middle school to hear Clara perform the the chorus concert. Mal took this picture of us with her after the program. They did such a good job.

When I went outside yesterday morning to dead my hanging pots, I found a new buddy waiting to greet me 🙂

I was at Momma’s on Memorial Day this year, getting her up and visiting until after lunch. I was so excited when I got home, though, to find that Jeff had starting tearing down our deck steps. I had been nagging him about it for I don’t know how long, and I was really excited to see that the job had been started.

Our Forever Young group sold wreaths back in the spring, and Addie & Lee got me this one – perfect for using on Memorial Day.