We love the pomp and pageantry of the Shakespeare Festival, including piano music in the lobby, art and books for sale in the shops, and a chance to drape ourselves around a statue of the Bard.
We ate supper at Centro Pizzeria, a new, stylish pizza restaurant in Cedar City.
We could never forget this is a college town, with all the school-spirited graffiti!
When we got to St. George, about 6 p.m., Dave had had enough excitement for the day. I discovered a Gordon Lightfoot concert at the Dixie Center to attend. Folk music is my favorite music genre, after classical music. I hadn't realized that Gordon Lightfoot composed many of the songs, such as "Early Morning Rain," sung by Bob Dylan and other folk artists out of the 1960s and 1970s. Gordon Lightfoot was older than I was by a decade, but I had discovered a soulmate. On the way home, I downloaded two of his albums.
Dave and I were at loose ends, Saturday morning, without Grandma and Darrell to visit. That has been part of our St. George routine for years, and it felt odd that they were gone. We drove past Grandma's house, and there was a pickup truck in the driveway. We drove on to the St. George Art Museum, where there is always something interesting going on. I snapped photos of the "D" for Dixie on the mountain, and of the fountains around the museum, so refreshing in the desert.
The primary exhibit was photographs by American legends Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams, originally included in a Life Magazine spread in 1953 entitled "Three Mormon Towns." Lange and Adams both had ties to Utah--Lange was married to Maynard Dixon, a Utah artist with a national reputation, and Adams sent his son to school in Utah. The three towns they photographed were St. George, Gunlock, and Toquerville. The exhibit was originally shown at BYU's Museum of Art, and then toured to St. George.
I also discovered another Utah landscape artist whose impressionistic paintings I love--Charles Thomas.
Our afternoon show at the Shakespeare Festival was "Marvelous Wonderettes," a spoof of an intermission show put on by the cheerleaders at a mythical 1958 prom. They then came back for their 1970 "reunion." It was a slapstick, but Dave and I laughed and laughed. The audience even voted for prom queen!
We ate dinner at Sakura, a St. George Japanese restaurant rated highly by Trip Advisor. The steamed seafood was the healthiest restaurant meal I'd eaten in a long time.
I compensated with ice cream and "mix-ins" at Cold Stone Creamery.
Back at our St. George house, I took my camera with me on my walk, to capture gorgeous Pine Mountain in the golden light of dusk.
Sunday morning, we checked out our garden, and carried home an armful of pomegranates. We have figs which are nearly ripe, and the gardener says he will plant a guava tree!
We drove home through gorgeous red rock country.
We passed the Parowan Gap, a narrow passageway between hills which contains 90 panels of Native American petroglyphs. We stopped to enjoy the most accessible of those panels.
As we drove through Milford, we saw cows grazing beneath wind turbines--a new vision of the West!
