I created the sewing studio for a space for tasks where stuff is always out. And if I were a better housekeeper and more prompt at listing things, I would have already have compressed all of the eBay stuff into the front room. I don't combine eBay with sewing or beading stuff or other craft materials.

The concert I went to this evening was wonderful, in the hall where the Cliburn competition takes place every four years. The acoustics are second to none (even when a thunderstorm rolls in and starts stomping around on the roof.) I got an incredible amount of context about the museum collection slides I have been scanning for the last five years, and I met the brother and sister of the twins who made that art. The twins were kind of your neighborhood polymaths, and one brother in particular loved classical music and did a lot of composing in addition to his trompe l'oeil paintings. I was wearing both my archives and docent hats this evening; I had a few photos in my phone that I pulled from the archives to use when I give tours in a small exhibit (that was the reason this concert happened). The siblings hadn't seen these photos, so it was an opportunity to let them be charmed by seeing new photos and let me be educated by getting more answers.

Meanwhile, on the front porch, it was nearly Godzilla meets Megalon this evening. I had a housefly I'd swatted on a window that I took to toss on the Argiope spider web, and realized a cicada killer, the B-52 of the wasp kingdom, was bouncing around near my porchlight. Moths, flies, small grasshoppers, little beetles, are one thing. A wasp that is double the size of the spider is another and would have torn up the web if it made contact. There are wasps that specialize in parasitizing spiders, but this particular wasp specializes in cicadas. They're very large and slow moving, but clunky in many contexts. Still, too much for this spider (I'm pretty sure - check in tomorrow morning to see if I report signs of a struggle and who won.)