Hike in the Woods and Dinner Outside

 

Today was so much fun. Travalon and I drove out to American Players Theater, where we joined Richard Bonomo, the Single B-Boy, and the Dairyman's Daughter for a program called "If These Trees Could Talk." They haven't been able to do any plays this season due to COVID, but this was something where we each got a little MP3 player (we had to bring our own headphones), then we listened to the APT actors recite poetry as we hiked through the woods. Travalon and I brought our good cameras.

Travalon didn't really like the poetry, so when we went up to the empty theater and listened to the second half of the program, he turned his machine off. Which is too bad, because they had great stories about mosquitos, ghosts, an actress's earring melting to the stage, and a luna moth that hovered above a scene with fairies from a Shakespeare play. People thought it was a puppet because it fit the scene so well! Kind of different than my one experience with a luna moth, down in Montgomery, Alabama, where I lost a fight with it about whether I could move it from the sidewalk to the grass. Here is a picture of the stage.

Travalon (who hates snakes) spotted this baby milk snake slithering along the stage. It went into a crack. No worries, they are not venomous.

Then Rich suggested we go somewhere for dinner. I thought 5:00 was way too early to start thinking about dinner, but we went to a supper club in Spring Green called Arthur's, and they were so busy that we didn't get our dinner until after 7:00, which was fine with me. We were sitting outside, having delicious food and great conversation, and then some of us got chocolate cake or ice cream drinks, so by the time we got done, it was almost time for Night Prayer. Since Rich, the Dairyman's Daughter, and I are the three main organizers, and none of us could get home in time to organize it, Rich just sent an email from his phone saying there would be no Night Prayer tonight. We can explain later that we were too busy partying!

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