Guest Artist Party - I love Michael and the Otsego Lake!

So I'm on my way to bed because I'm tired, but I couldn't resist posting a few pictures from the Guest Artist party Michael, general director, held last night at his house on the lake. It was fabulous!

Let's just cut to the best party of the evening: When Michael took Adrienne and I along with some fabulous opera people out on his boat. He'd been giving boat rides all night and we got to go on the last ride out, when the sun was just setting.

Here's the view from the boat:




Adrienne and I were very excited, so we took a lot of photos to document





Michael let me steer the boat! I was a little drunk, so he helped out. Haha.



Here's Caroline who plays the lead in The Greater Good. She is amazing on stage and in person. So nice and warm.




Michael is my favorite person ever. Seriously, EVER.



And these are a few shots form the Jenufa rehearsal today. Keep it on the HUSH HUSH, as I'm not sure if I should be posting these images or not . . .






Love to all! Jenufa opens Saturday and hopefully Lara can make it.

The Greater Good

So the Greater Good opened on Saturday. Yay for world premieres! I'm a bit worried about the reviews. The opera is, well, it's an acquired taste, that's for sure. Things are good here. Michael's having a party today so I'm going to take some social pics. I made pumpkin chocolate chip muffins with glazed walnuts last night for the admin office and they are pretty much amazing. I think, for the next round, I'm going to make them more like brownies, and put cream cheese icing on top. Yes. This makes me salivate.

Here are a few photos. Best wishes to everyone!

Brooke and I at the reception


Adrienne, Julia, and I


Britney, the marketing and PR manager, and her boyfriend Chris. They are so sweet and adorable.


Afterwards Adrienne and I decided to go to Alex and Ika's for drinks, even though we're menial plebians and deifnitely not cool enough or important enough to be socializing. But, whatever. It was fun. Adrienne is a bit on the tipsy side in this photo. If that's not already somewhat apparent.


The lovely Julia and I



That's it for now. Lara is coming to see me on the 29th! That's also the Jenufa opening. I am very excited. Jonathan Miller, the director is fantastic and the show looks incredible. Plus, I ordered a dress to wear . . heh. It looks like this:

Poor Cooperstown

I'm at Stagecoach in Cooperstown with my roommate Amelia right now.

It's not raining at the moment, nor was it when we drove in, but apparently it stormed in Cooperstown just a bit ago and we noticed some roads blocked because of trees and powerlines down. Apparently Stagecoach is the only place on the block with power (and wifi). We'll see how long that lasts!

I just heard sirens. I'm not sure what's going on, but I hope nothing serious. Poor Cooperstown. The flood and now this. It's just not the best summer for this place.

Love to all!

Catch-up Post: Sunday, July 16th

Sunday:

Adrienne and I decided to take yet another adventurous roadtrip, this time to Oneonta, which is only 45 minutes away.
We passed by lush grass and rustic buildings.






The light was beautifully golden.



We stopped by Bearpond Winery on our way for a quick tasting.




I bought some really yummy cheese there that's made in NY. It was garlic and dill. YUM.


Of course, leave it to us to get lost. Just like our previous trips to Albany and Utica, we totally passed the turn in for the town.
Only a 25 minute detour . .


After we shopped at Walmart we saw A Prarie Home Companion. Oneonta is the closest town with a movie theatre. I absolutely loved it. Meryl was amazing in it and the music was fab and GK is awesome. Highly recommended. When the movie was over we went to a 24 hour greek diner. Weird, I know. The diner was super cute and they have a million items to choose from. Unfortunately, the food sucked and was way over priced. Oh well.



We had our own jukebox at the booth.



Well, that's it. Sorry to be so brief all the time, but I'm off to work.

Catch-up Post: Saturday July 15th

Hello All! I hope everyone is doing well wherever you are.

I asked off Saturday because I intended to go to the Belgium beer fest, but that was before I knew it was 40 dollars. I'm a bit too poor for that, considering it would be more like 70 dollars, because the price doesn't include food or other beer apart from the tastings. Adrienne and I decided to go to Sharon Springs. Here's the run down, featuring a pictorial timeline of our day, of course!


When we started driving it was very foggy outside. The fog here is just lovely, very delicate and wavering.

It also started to rain a bit, so I snapped this from inside the car

Sharon Springs is only about 20 minutes away, so it was a pleasant drive.


First off, we hit The Black Cat, an uber cute cafe Adrienne has been telling me about.




The interior ambiance was quite quaint. I'd love to go back soon.





I'm officially in love with this building, which was across the street.


Next we headed to a cute anitque/gift shop with a myraid of themed rooms.




After we shopped there we went to two shops housed in the same building.

The first shop featured handmade scarves and table runners. I really wanted a scarf, but they are around 80 dollars. So gorgeous. I talked to the lady who was weaving, she was very nice.



The other shop was a gallery of sorts.


The lady with the loom tipped us off on Foxglove press, right downstairs.








The woman working the press was so warm and friendly, she said I could come back and take so photos of her. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to learn how to print things. I would make the best books ever . . . I bought a lot of greeting cards from her, so keep your eyes open and check the mail :)

The last place we went to was an antique shop inside an old hotel




We didn't find much there, but they owner said they're having an opening night soon. I guess some of the rooms are gallery space.

All right, well, sorry for the plethora of pictures; I hope they load quickly. I have more photos to post from yesterday but that will have to wait until after lunch.

Oh, and P.S. if you haven't heard . . . I had a photo run in the NY Times yesterday! Woot!

Love to all,
j.