Sally leaned over with her hands on her hips, appearing to try and catch her breath. Marshall and Sally were racing up the driveway to the back porch.

Marshall was pacing, looking out the window and pacing some more — anxiously waiting for Sally to get home from her chair yoga class.

How do those artists do it? Creating scenes that make you wish you could step into the picture and sit at the benches painted onto the canvas.

“Hoo-ga,” Guinevere said.

“Hoo-ga?” repeated Roxanne. “How do you spell that?”

There are just a few days left before Eleanor Graves’s array of pictures will be moving out of the Friends Art Gallery to make room for the new show.

You are hereby invited to join the mushroom man, Avery Stempel, at the Berne Library on June 21 at 6:30 p.m. He will share mushroom health benefits and more.

Artist alert! A new display hanging out in the Friends Art Gallery awaits you.

New month, new newsletter, new programs to add to your library calendars and a new word from the Word of the Month Club. Hello, June! 

Another week bringing in a fine cast of characters visiting the library, checking out reading material, movies, books on CDs, music CDs, magazines, cake pans, and board games unfolds.

This week, in the  “Celebrate Little Things” corner, it’s a celebration of something much bigger than a dollop of ice cream. More far reaching than a pebble across the pond.