I am excited that I will be performing next Sunday, April 27 with these musicians in Bozeman.  Amazingly enough, I already get to play chamber music on a concert with viola and clarinet and a singer who is not pictured.  The concert is at St. James, an episcopal church with great acoustics.  What's really exciting is that these symphony players are VERY happy to have me with them.  I think I will have many chances to make music here.  We'll be playing from Bruch's Eight Pieces for viola, clarinet and piano, then some beautiful folk pieces for viola by Vaughan Williams and a light classical viola sonata.  Very fun! Chris took this picture today to be published in the newspaper.

Bozeman at last

So, here we are in our new house.  It's pretty funny to see us sitting on the floor in our big living room against opposite walls.  We have no furniture until Wed or Thurs.  I bought an air mattress and several things this evening, so we can get by until then.  Tomorrow we'll get the car registered and buy a washer and dryer.  I can't tell you how good it feels to be done traveling.  We really loved seeing everything and visiting, but the hotels and eating out and Iain being car seat bound was all getting old. 
Let me just say, if we ever think we're about to dry up here, we'll just be in Seattle in a day and soak up the wet weather there.  It really struck us how different it was.  It kind of reminded me of Amsterdam.  I think we really appreciate places where a 'convergence of diversity' exists.  Pikes Public Market by the waterfront is the oldest working farmers' market in the country.  All the foods and vendors and music and activity....so stimulating. 

I kind of laughed at myself when I got so excited about something I saw there.  Prior to yesterday, my only perspective on Seattle had been the large photos on the wall of the Goleta Borders which serves Seattle's Best Coffee.  So we looked toward the water and I saw this sign.  It seemed familiar, then I realized it must be in the wall picture at Borders in Goleta!  I was very excited to actually put that together in my mind.  Little things like that really please me!


 

Cool sign!

 

He was done!



30 minutes outside of Seattle there was 6-8 feet of snow along the side of the highway. 



Hopefully, this is the look we'll be getting from him over the coming days.