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Saturday was the most beautiful day! It was as though spring arrived in full force. I needed something at the Old Market, so I got an early start and was so excited at the hustle and bustle. There were more vendors than I had ever seen before in the covered market, and the fresh vegetable sellers had multiplied. Most fun were the stands set up to sell flowers, trees, shrubs, seeds, bedding plants and bulbs of all sorts. I even saw bags of seed potatoes with all those funky eye growths just waiting to be cut up and planted. There were herbs, especially dill and gobs of tomato plants from tiny to very well established in pots for the balcony, I guess.
I was surprised at how many of the flowers I recognized from gardens in the US -- holly hocks, nastursiums, geraniums, pansies, those tiny things that look like pansies, impatience, hydrangia, begonias, zinnias, flox (I think), petunias. Masses of color. There were also people selling cut flowers - roses and tulips, especially. People were going out lugging large boxes of bedding plants and hanging baskets, probably to the bus stop.
Del went out later for a walk and to pick up some things at the Iki and found the source of the beautiful music coming through our open windows. There was jazz going on in front of the jazz club, and little bands set up on corners and in the square. He also say an outdoor piano recital and some children doing folk dances.
I did some cooking for the birthday party we attended in the afternoon at the home of one of the long term couples at LCC. They will be going home in two weeks to Harrisonburg and to visit churches, as missionaries do during the summer. It was lovely to be in their back garden with the apple trees just beginning to come forth. They are also in the process of oving out of this house after six years. Betsy said they came to Lithuania 9 years ago with 2 suitcases each, but it is going to take a truck to move them from the house. Most of the people we knew from the semester have already left, but we met some new people who are here to teach a summer course. A pair of twin brothers, both retired professors, are back for the 12th time, and we met a young man from the Atlanta area. None of their wives came. That makes them sound like polygamists, doesn't it?
We left the party just in time to get ready to go to the puppet show. It was about George, who had various adventures and was based on three Lithuanian stories, and a hat. We recognized a word or two, but were again just fascinated by the visual. The puppeteers were actors who were always visable and often appeared to be participating in an old fashioned radio show. All the puppets were made of newspaper, and were amazing. They were so simple, and yet so effective. There was a man, a small child, various spirits and monstors, even a fedora made of newspaper. If you look up Pagal Jurgi ir kepure you can see some pictures.
I was delighted to catch a glimpse of the pantomime artist from the night before. He is just as beautifully homely without white face as with. I do wonder if the wonderful lines in his face are because of the way he uses his face or if his face just made his profession an obvious choice.
Again, I came home with my brain too tired from doing to think about writing about it, so today's entry is again a day late. I think my energy level is waning, or has done waned, but I do want to write down things so I can remember them. One of the professors knows someone we knew in Akron, but none of us could remember his last name. I thought it started with either a /w/ or some other letter of the alphabet,but today at 1:30 in the afternoon, when I was thinking of something else all together it came to me. Started with an /h/, but of course I was right, since it did indeed start with some other letter of the alphabet. Can't say I don't cover my bases.
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