Salt Water Moon

Al & I went to the theater last Friday, at a favourite little spot of ours - the Saco River Grange, Bar Mills. It's a great spot on the banks of the Saco River, and fits about 100 people at the most. It harks back to a victorian playhouse, and the audience are perched on small seats, very close together. The back few rows are elevated.

The play was called 'Salt Water Moon' by David French, and was set in Newfoundland a few years after the end of the First World War. Its themes were mainly rekindling old love, festering resentment of the war's victims etc. It had only two characters and the accents were quite Irish sounding. There lay the plays problems, since the female character started out talking too fast and quiet and with the accent too - we both lost the plot for a few minutes. It improved quickly, but I'm sure that any older audience members towards the back must have had real difficulty listening or thought it was mime. Though the male character had a booming voice/part so that balanced things somewhat.

Overall, the performance/writing was good, and the performers were excellent - though we were pleased when it was over, since we began to get a bit uncomfortable, and we thought there was a second part but then Al saw it didn't have an intermission so when the couple embraced it was all over. We're not huge fan's of only two part plays (we didn't know beforehand), since it's all back and forth, back and forth with little silence, light relief etc. We were (sorta) hoping that some character would have burst in on the proceedings with a loaded shotgun and....well, made it a murder/crime mystery!

Another cutie

photoshop and grace

Anyone for Tennis?

It's been over 8 years since I picked up a racket, and I believe that my last match was playing Sam and Melissa with Rich. Too many running injuries to play, I thought my tennis playing days were well over. Rich played 6 years ago with a couple of British guys in Boston... But last weekend, with memories of Tiger Tim in mind, we headed to the local court and resumed our play. It's been a lot of fun... We're a long way from our epic matches in Spain, but it's surprising what you remember.

Rich was VERY keen to blog following our first scoring match, which, of course he won in a 7-6 tie-break, but less keen when, the next day I thrashed him 6-2,... and then the next day 6-1. He did come back ad take a set at 6-3, but yesterday we had another round and he lost 6-1.

Aside from tennis we've been busy gardening, swimming in the lake, cycling, rowing, and walking the pups...

Oh yes, and watching the Tour de France.

grace!

my ever willing photography subject!

the biggest butterfly i have ever seen!

maybe south carolina is the place where the worlds largest butterflies live! certainly gasped when we saw this one on our deck.

what's in there????

a quick note from here, having just been over there!

bex looking slightly rotund methinks! but also looking very pleased with herself!