Tamar

Today (Wed) we went to Northhampton and picked up Tamar after school (Wed. Is a half-day). Tamar attends a charter school - Hilltown Cooperative School - a really neat school which used to occupy an old mill building, but last fall moved into new quarters in a more traditional school building. It's still a neat school.

          Entrance to Hilltown School

 Tamar's classroom which is fourth grade

Like a lot of schools, Hilltown has student art displayed in the hallway. Tamar had a self portrait, and a watercolor landscape she had done. Each child chose a photograph of a National Park scene and made a copy of it in watercolor. Nice!

                    Self-portrait 

        Tamar's watercolor landscape 

Then we went to lunch at a place we used to go near the old school. It was under new management but the food was still tasty. Then we went to get an ice cream treat at Herrell's, Northhampton's premier ice cream parlor. Next door is Left Click, a Mac computer store where Tamar likes to visit - they were very generous about letting us come in even though we weren't going to buy anything. 

Tamar enjoying the graphics on a desk-top Mac.

Then we took Tamar home because I had to get back to the Guilford Church for a meeting of the Pastoral Relations Committee at 5 p.m., which we managed to make on time. 

After that we came home, I puttered at various tasks while Ellen fixed supper, and we ate while we watched a Nature program about life in/on a sagebrush prairie which was both interesting and beautiful.