Through a different lens

My 19 year old granddaughter is in town for the summer, working at Pandora's in the mall, sharing an apartment with her boyfriend, and generally having a wonderful summer.  Today was the first chance she and I have had to get together and we made the most of it.  She will be going into her sophomore year studying design, specifically dress design, so it seemed like a good idea to take her to the Bill Blass exhibit at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.  It's a lovely exhibit, not huge but very interesting. We took a long time enjoying the clothes and comparing notes on our likes and dislikes.  Actually there were no dislikes when it came to the clothes.  We moved on to the contemporary exhibit, then the floral art, then the quilts and then my favorite, the glass exhibit.  I love the large glass sculptures.  In the last hallway, on our way out, we discovered a cabinet full of little glass items, some shaped like animals, some like little cut glass barbells.  It turns out that every item in that cabinet was a knife holder.  Evidently these were part of place settings at very posh dinners.  The purpose was to keep those possibly messy table knifes off the beautiful white tablecloths.  What a great idea.  After the museum we went across the street to a sushi restaurant.  The food was delicious, and I watched with a bit of envy as my granddaughter expertly used her chopsticks. Thankfully they also provided forks.  As we sat across the table from each other I had time to observe at leisure her lavender and turquoise hair, a couple of new piercings and at least one new tattoo.  Ah well, she's still beautiful, and she's my granddaughter so it's not up to me to try to control her fashion choices.  I just get to love her.