CSO Concert in the Park

Once again it was that time of year to see the Colorado Symphony Orchestra summer concert in the park. Megan packed an excellent picnic as usual for me, herself and Stephen to enjoy.

The menu included:
Champagne, White wine
tomato and mozzarella caprese salad
blueberries
bread and boursin cheese
chicken salad
shrimp cocktail
gourmet chocolates, Pepperidge Farm cookies

The CSO performed:
Rossini's "Overture to Semiramide"
Bizet "Symphony in C"

Unfortunately it was rained out after these two pieces. The good news is that we had finished the picnic!

Harry Potter

Don't worry, no spoilers, but I felt like I should do a blog entry on the final book. I thought it was great. I love that the characters visited many of the locations from previous books. It will make for a good, but perhaps long movie. I actually went Friday night at midnight to get a copy. I haven't done this in the past but thought for the last book I should. I ended up in line at the grocery store at 11:55pm. The line was the entire length of the cereal aisle. I was about halfway down the line. When I got to the front of the line, I checked back again and it was still the entire length of the cereal aisle. I guess that's not surprising since over 8 million copies sold in the US in the first 24 hours. When I think about how many words J.K Rowling made up when she wrote the series - it's very creative yet the story is somewhat simple. I wish I could have thought of it, and then I'd be a billion dollars richer. And yes...I was finished with it by 8:45 am on Saturday. It reminded me of when I was a kid and would stay up all night reading. It's fun to do every once in awhile.

Fur Elise Slightly Different

I found this on YouTube awhile back. How awesome are these guys?

It's so pretty.

The piano has arrvied, and I love it.

Flowers Update

My last post about planting flowers was on May 27th. It's been about a month and a half now - time to check in on that survival of the fittest theory. The boxes of flowers are doing really well. You can compare this picture to the one I took on May 27th. It's the same flower box just turned around.

Not all of the plants have been so lucky. You can see in the pot on the left here that one of them got a little too toasty in the sun. I tried Miracle Grow, but I couldn't revive it.