Gas price: $3.21

Is this a record? Prices go down over Memorial Day weekend?!

Gas price $3.21

Shatto milk rainbow

The flavors. The colors. The lactic beauty of Shatto milk.

Shatto milk rainbow

Coffee; strawberry; chocolate; root beer; banana; orange cream; cotton candy; and milk flavored milk.

Gas price: $3.26

Wondering whether we’ll see the price climb to $4 this summer…

Gas price $3.26

Gas price $3.39

The price is going up, again…

Gas price $3.39

Little white dogs: Maltipoos Satch and Murphy

I met Satch and Murphy during their afternoon walk in Shawnee, Kan. They were enthusiastically loving and terribly photogenic, but a little shy of the camera. Non-the-less, here are a few shots that capture a bit of their personalities:

NOTE: The first shot was overexposed in the camera. I bumped up the black level a tench, but it’s otherwise undoctored.

At the ballet

I’d been to the ballet. I grew up going to the Nutcracker Suite ballet during the Christmas season. Then there were several modern ballet performances which helped me understand my taste – reaching back to childhood, girls in tutus, toe shoes and flowing ribbons. That’s the ballet I wanted.

And last night, that’s the ballet I got: George Balanchine’s “Serenade,” which reminded me of Escher in motion with about 15 ballerinas in flowing white, straight tutus, a carousel of recombining shapes, fluid and complex. I was transfixed.

My friend B and I stayed for a few more segments in the show, fine pieces, but in our eyes, they paled. We left early for a cappuccino and tiramiso nightcap at Lidia’s before getting B home to relieve the babysitter.

The following description calls this ballet “…a masterwork of geometrical poetry.” Read more about this performance of Serenade

The Muriel Kauffman Theatre at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

The Muriel Kauffman Theatre

Gas price: $3.32

And the prices, they go down and down…

Gas price: $3.32