Birthday

The day before my birthday, Julie and Estelle commissioned Wayne to compose a piece of music for my birthday.  Wayne quickly threw together a few measures for his trumpet, Estelle's oboe, Cole's saxophone, Lena's recorder, and Heather's piano.  They all got together that afternoon for a couple of run throughs.

The concert was held on Joanie's porch on the evening of my birthday.

Warming up...

In attendance were Joanie, Julie, Lisa, Dan, and Cole's friend Fintan.

The first performance...

The encore performance...

I love Lena playing the recorder. She did a great job. They were all great.

Then poor Fintan, who recently starred as Charlie Brown, in Mirror Theatre's "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" was coaxed and cajoled into reprising his role on our "stage." He was a good sport about it. He is from a very musical family. He plays trombone, violin, and piano and he and his siblings are all members of various segments of Vermont Youth Orchestra.

Wayne had made a cake - lemon cake with lemon buttercream frosting. Very yummy!

And Heather had made some blueberry tartlets with the blueberries we picked the other day.

It was a great evening and I really enjoyed the music, cake, tarts, company, cards and gifts. Thanks everyone for a great birthday.