I’ve spent my week loading in and designing a new opera composed by Laura Kaminsky and with text Baer on poems by Elaine Sexton. It’s called The Post Office, and it is about marriage equality and democracy. The architect Charles Renfro designed a set composed of 312 postal bins, and I have had the honor of lighting it. A sample is below, featuring the cast of postal workers, a customer, and Benjamin Franklin.
Some engineer put a great Star Trek Easter egg in the Artemis reentry. The distance traveled from the atmospheric entry to splashdown? 1701 miles.
Also, Autumn has been enjoying the coverage.
Introducing Autumn, the newest member of the Franck household. Laura Franck and I met her a couple days ago and adopted her today. She’s super social, loves lap time, and has a very satisfying purr. It’s nice to have the house properly run by and for a cat again.
Scenes from snowy Vermont. Drysuso aboit each below.
Moonlight shining through clouds at 11pm last night.
Spruce Peak with morning sunlight.
Mt Mansfield with morning sunlight.
Spent the morning with Laura Franck at the DMV - we’re now officially Vermonters! That’s Lake Memohramgog behind us - it straddles the border with Canada.
