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My violin, complete with Chin Chum
After-concert photo: Virginia, Elke Ruhl, and Abby Seemann, dressed in chic orchestra black. [Photo: Tom Seeman]
a swollen creek near my home
With my friend Ada Shibahara in fourth grade at Parkdale Grade School
a view out my window in autumn
I’m with my brother and our horse on our lawn in our postwar youth. [Photo: Anthony Euwer, Jr.]
Mrs. Porterfield's 4th and 5th grade classes of Parkdale Grade School, 1946. I was in the 4th grade. I'm standing in the second row from the front, second from the right.
I played in this youth orchestra. No music stands. We sometimes played from memory.
This is my family's pear orchard with Mount Hood in the background.
Mount Hood, the Cairn Basin in summer [photo: Mimi Macht]
Lost Lake in the late afternoon [photo: Mimi Macht]
Trillium Lake, with Mount Hood in the background [photo: Mimi Macht]
Mount Hood, Vista Ridge view [photo: Mimi Macht]
Pirate musicians playing excerpts from ‘Pirates of Penzance’ and—of course—a Pirates of the Caribbean medley
My father (on right) as a young lawyer-turned-orchardist early in the 20th century.
Spending time with Katie and Sandi Fogle's Mother-Daughter Book Club, West Linn, Oregon, November, 2000
Mount Hood in December
With Tomoko Kodama of Tokyo, Japan. Tomoko is the Japanese translator of Make Lemonade, 1998. [Photo: Deborah Post]
Visiting with a classroom of writers

Ten-year-old Diana, in quarantine in Rome, is reading La ragazza col violino, the Italian edition of The Mozart Season, in springtime. Here she is with her violin. Thanks to Diana for this lovely photo!

Enjoy this interview about The Mozart Season in Bookology. My thanks to Melanie Heuiser Hill for the intriguing questions.

Susan Monteiro at Monteiro Studio interviewed me for her podcast about The Mozart Season.