Last Saturday was the street painting, a lot of fun, and best of all, Regina's street painting made the front page of the local paper.  She did the Little Mermaid, Atticus did Alice in Wonderland, I did the Grasshopper from the Grasshopper and the ants, Henry and Sabra's friend Sue did a dinosaur, Sabra did a colorful crow, and Laura did the Owl and the Pussycat.  We were all in a row, and got a lot of attention, especially Sue with the dinosaur for little boys and Regina with Ariel for the little girls.  Everyone called my grasshopper a cricket, and by the end, I was even calling him a cricket.  A really good family day, and Regina is already talking about doing little red riding hood and the wolf for next year.  This was a favorite one of Maria's painting.

Now we are getting ready to go to oysterfest.  Timmy has packed three different colored jackets, so when he goes oyster hunting the shellfish warden doesn't recognize him....No, the guy this morning was wearing a black jacket, this one has on a white jacket.  We're only gone a week, and already we've packed almost everything we own.  That's the excitement of vacation...and you know you are going to forget something. 

Went to Maria's grave today and it was gorgeous.  It is a beautiful fall day to begin with, and Ria and Patty's flowers, zinnias,  marigolds, large and small, are still putting out blooms, and have more buds to come.  The flowers were full of bees, all kinds, and butterflies, small yellow and white ones.  It was so peaceful to sit there, watching the flutterby's (as Timmy says they once were called) and listening to the buzz of the bees.  I have bulbs to plant on Mr. Brown's grave in Wellfleet, something we do every year, and a pumpkin from Tony's garden.  Mr. Brown has the original stone that is now on Maria's, so that's the connection.  It's an old, old graveyard, and although we never get to see the spring bulbs, I bet they're something else.  Just to see a pumpkin on one of those old forgotten graves is worthy of the effort. 

So that's it - street painting over, Wellfleet and oysters and Mr. Brown coming up.