Last Saturday was evilly hot. A sweltering day to go in town and stand in a hot room running four projectors. And yet my friends, relatives, and supporters came out to the opening and stayed in large numbers. Thank you all so much. I have very good and loyal friends. On the other hand, I myself did not handle the heat well. By the end of the evening I felt like a limp dishrag that had been put through one of those old washing machine wringers so many times that all that was left of me was shreds. Luckily, this week is cooler.

One of the challenges of working with technology is that you have to have a plan. The entire GROVE Part 1 runs the video to four DLP projectors through a signal splitter connected to my Mac Book Pro. The Media Bureau's events tend to run late and long and I was nervous about leaving my laptop running all night given that it had to last for three weeks. We tried another laptop which ran the video for about 12 hours before giving up the ghost. I had an old laptop but it would not even accept Quicktime 7. With four days left I finally had an idea. I took a camera out into Carpenter's Woods in the morning and created what I have come to think of as GROVE Lite. GROVE Lite is a simple slide show of green light and shadow in the very woods where the trees will eventually be planted and left to decay. My friends Madeleine (aged 3) and Katerina came and enjoyed GROVE and GROVE Lite yesterday. Madeleine preferred the GROVE Lite but for Katerina, the "real" GROVE had more resonance. The whole experience reassured me that even as Part 1 ends, Part 2 will demand my presence daily in the woods I love.