Life Happening: a college visit
The brilliant news is that our younger son, Eli (the athlete), has been accepted at his first choice: Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It has the perfect academics for him (he wants to major in Animal Behavior), is not too big and not too small, in a small city (not rural like here and not a huge, overwhelming city), and…drum roll: has a Division 1 Wrestling Team! Yes, Eli will (oh please let him be less injury prone in college!) wrestle in college. His teammates are *very* impressive, the coach is wonderful, and we are thrilled that he already has a group of like minded souls to be his first “college family.” So we went to the “Closer Look” day the Friday before Maine’s Spring Break weekend in mid April. Here are some pics from the way down:

About an hour a half from home, Paul said “Oh oh.” He realized he was still wearing his house slippers. And had no other shoes. So we made a quick detour to Freeport to buy something for him to wear as we were too far from home to turn around. LL Bean had this totally awesome clockwork thingie…LOVED it. Could see a fab steampunk-ish art quilt inspired by this.
We got back on the road, I got caught up on a mountain of magazines (mostly art and quilt related to keep up on inspiration and industry news), Paul drove, and I took occasional photos. It is a 9 1/2 hour drive, and we needed to be in Lancaster, PA by about 7 pm, so we had to make good time.

This is in NY, I think, but I love the look up to the just-about-to-bud-out trees. I also really like the ghost silhouette of Paul in the reflection on the window.
Finally, nearly there! Next post I’ll share some inspiration I found at F&M.
May 8th, 2016 at 1:34 pm
I see you enjoying your trips to visit Eli as you are in Amish Country (fabric shopping,YEAH!!)
May 8th, 2016 at 3:15 pm
Interesting trip and photos – slippers? cute. It could have been worse!
May 8th, 2016 at 6:40 pm
Welcome to Lancaster PA Eli! I am from a town 7 miles north of Lancaster, Lititz. You will have a first rate educational experience at F&M and a charming location ‘tho I may be a bit prejudiced! We are a diverse culture here with a nice mix of plain folks (Amish and Mennonite), English (general name for all non plain folks ) and many minority immigrants.