Father's Day Weekend Update

We always start the summer with a trip to Ravinia.  I recently found this old graphic on line.(I've already used it in a craft project.)  Ravinia is the oldest outdoor music venue in the U.S.  Located on the North Shore, we've been attending since our honeymoon in 1976.(Barry Manilow!)  I attended with friends earlier in the seventies to see John Denver. Swoon...  We have the preparations for a concert at Ravinia down to a science.  All we have a problem with, is the weather!

We pack everything but the kitchen sink.  We have a special table and I spend much time and effort on making our experience a pleasurable one. We are not fancy smancy, potato chips, sandwiches and a pasta salad were on the menu.  Watermelon and cookies for dessert. Since we don't drink, we went wild and had flavored water!

We try to attend a couple of concerts, and choose for the artists, sometimes for the cost.  This year we were going back to hear a live broadcast of NPR's Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. Last year we were rained out, I mean stormed out.  Sheets of rain, thunder and lighting.

The first flowers from my garden, climbing roses, hydrangea and lavender with hosta leaves.

 Surely we wouldn't be so unfortunate as to be rained on two years in a row...

 Things started out great.

I think he was trying to say, "Don't take my picture with my mouth full..."

 When my darling daughter saw this photo she said "Peace Mom!"  She didn't like my peasant top, I guess.

We need a selfie stick.  Can you buy them by the yard?  Well, as you can see we were having a great time. My dearest was reading to me... from the Linux Cumulus (computer) magazine he was reading.  I pretended it was romantic.  The show was great.  One of the guests was violinist Rachel Barton.  Local girls will recognize her name.  I use her name as a cautionary phrase whenever the kids traveled by train.  She is a very talented musician and we enjoyed the show very much.  Then...

The rain came.  It was late in the show, but when it started to drizzle we put away our table and packed up everything except our chairs and the umbrella we sat under.  As we watched the radar on our phones and saw the green turning to yellow and red we figured the party, so to speak was over.  Again we listened to the end of the show in the car on the way home.  Still, a great time, a romantic evening, and the perfect place to celebrate the first day of Summer.

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy this beautiful day.