Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may, advised English poet Robert Herrick almost 400 years ago. Since the Winton Marsalis concert we attended the end of February (scroll to the bottom of this entry to read the blog), Donna and I have continued to gather our share of rosebuds. We have: Visited Donna’s sister Sue in New Jersey Attended the powerful and intense production of King Lear in Washington, D.C. Took a day trip to beautiful, historic Havre de Grace, a place we have talked about exploring for years Spontaneously attended a weekday afternoon Orioles game In addition, we are fortunate to have all our grandchildren close by, so we get to spend a good amount of time with them and our daughters and sons-in-law (our son and his wife live in California). We get to watch the grandkids from time to time, so we feel like we are really connected to them. Also, the older ones are starting organized sports and it’s a treat to watch them go at it. We have more adventures sched