Blue With A Smattering Of Yellow

The hydrangeas out front are really starting to show some color. There's one blossom that's all blue, but it's buried deep within the bush and doesn't lend itself to being photographed. As such I had to settle on this one that has a combination of blue and yellow.

Grammy, Pop pop, Mammaw, JJ and Nana all came up to see Catherine's recital tonight then left for home afterwards. That's a lot of driving in one day just to see Catherine on stage for a couple minutes so a hearty thanks to all of those folks that made the trip. The performance went a lot like the dress rehearsal video I posted earlier today. The only big difference was the girl to Catherine's left (our right) got a little stage fright and just sort of stood there. I didn't see it, but Ginger and Grammy mentioned that Catherine was telling the girl where to stand because she wasn't moving with the group. Bossing people around, now that sounds like my daughter. All in all Catherine did about as well as I was expecting. And she didn't fall down (she can really get into the spins and I always have this fear she's going to wipe out as she finishes her spins). And she did almost all the moves she was suppose to. At the end of the event they asked all the dancers to come back up on stage to take a bow, but Catherine would have none of that. That was about the worst of it, which means that all in all, things didn't go to bad.

I ran into a co-worker Brian (and his wife Jamie) at the event. Turns out his wife used to teach at the studio or something, so they were volunteering. Brian was running the lights and sound and Jamie looked like she was providing support coordinating everything. I found out more about the video situation from Brian though and I'm less upset about it. Turns out they have to pay the video production company about four thousand just to show up and record the event. So the way Brian was describing it, the dance studio is barely breaking even with the money from the DVD sales (but I bet the video production company that filmed the event and provides the DVDs is raking it in). The next logical question was why didn't the studio just film it themselves, and Brian told me that the production quality of the guys doing the video is head and shoulders above anything the studio could do themselves. Oh well, it's still cheaper than the cost of the DVD of Quinn's opera.