Auction recap: part 4, wonderful photos

I think at this point people were arriving and we were all on auto-pilot getting things done. We were operating like a well-oiled machine!

Just before heading into the hall, I snapped this one of Haydi with her daughter Ariel. What a great team these two were.

I love this photo. They are too cute in matching Abbey Art Auction tees.

Then I saw Tim with our daughter Lucy. Lucy looks great and Tim already looks tired--understandably so. He probably was caught in a blink.


In the hall, Frank was busy selling raffle tickets--the perfect job for him. He seemed to enjoy working our crowd. In this photo, though, he seems to be selling to Andy Bacevich.

Frank, you look so serious even with your silly raffle-ticket-prices hat.

This is the only photo I have of the auction itself and it's of Sr. Robert holding the painting "Nun with Cows" that was up for bid. (Can you guess who the nun in the painting is.)

We had a bidding war on this one! What fun!

In the end, the live auction raised $10,000 and we were delighted (and exhausted) at the end.

Looking at all of the donated paintings was such a tangible visual of the support of friends and strangers. I am so pleased to have been a part of it.