Last Thursday night was Clara’s voice recital. As a member this year of the CHS Choraliers – the high school chorus here in town – she takes private voice lessons, as all of the members do. Part of their final grade for the year is performing in this recital. She sang Ten Minutes Ago, from that latest Cinderella movie, and I thought she just did a great job. Although she has gotten used to singing some on her own this year in Choraliers, this was certainly outside her comfort zone, and we were so proud of her.

Afterwards at the little reception in the lobby of the chorus building. So, so proud.

I had been craving some barbecue, so yesterday after church Mason & I headed to Ole Carolina BBQ in Gastonia for me to get my fix. We had the best time visiting and catching up – he’s been busy with basketball, so I really hadn’t seen him since Christmas. Fun time.

Adam had TWO church league basketball games yesterday. Here’s a picture from each game. Luckily their jerseys are reversible :-). In the first picture you can see his Coach Dad standing in the background.

Last Sunday afternoon my friend Evelyn and I went to see a demonstration by the Civitas Drumline at the middle school just down the road from our house.  It wasn’t a finished production – just a show so their parents and friends could see a rough draft of their performance show for this spring – but that was a bunch of talented kids.  I had never seen an indoor drum line before, and they were so much fun to watch.  Of course still pictures cannot do the show justice, but here are a couple.

Saturday Jeff & I met Andy & Amy in Rock Hill to see the boys in action. Adam’s game was first. He played great & their team won big, as has been the case most games this season. Adam is #1, blocking the inbound pass.

Then on to Charlie’s game. Char got some playing time, and even though they went down in defeat, they played hard and were coming back, but just rant out of time. That’s Char right in the middle playing defense.

Friday Meg and I headed back to Sumter to visit the Jewish History Center – two weeks in a row for me. Because the Torah that belonged to the synagogue there and that was the subject of the study that was done on its history was found to have originally been from Prague, and because Meg is going there on a cruise this summer, she wanted to go back and see it. This time, though, the entire museum was open, so we really enjoyed seeing it. It was small but so well done that we just really enjoyed it. I got a couple of pictures of the permanent exhibits.

Thursday night Lindee got up our annual restaurant week – it’s called Queen’s Feast since Charlotte is called the Queen City – and she, Addie, Meg & I went to check out Drift, a restaurant on the lake that we had all been wanting to try. I was sort of disappointed in the food, but the company could not have been better. Meg was our photographer as we were heading inside.

My friend Gail Goodrich Hargrove creates a calendar every year with pictures that she has painted – she is so talented. I love January’s amaryllis picture.

Last Sunday Meg & I left church after Sunday school to meet her daughter Hope and Hope’s roommate Abigail at the Columbia Museum of Art. There has been an exhibit there for the past several months that I had been meaning to tell Meg about, with pieces from the fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen, and his personal photographer, Ann Ray. Of course this could not be further from something that I know about, but both Meg and Abigail were fashion design majors in college, so they were ALL fired up about it. We learned that she began photographing him when he was just starting out, and as it turned out, at that time he had no money so he paid her in clothes that he designed. A lot of the ones on display at the museum were pieces he had gifted her. I thought that was very cool.

I, of course, had never heard of the designer, and actually neither had Meg, but Abigail was all excited, and even Mallory and Lindee both knew about him. Huh. They had this little photo place. Ann Ray called the times they got together for her to take pictures their Rendez-Vous, so I loved that this was the quote that was on the wall – and perfect for a picture with my bestie.