I decided Friday that I would do a new thing for this Open Houses, I would take portraits of people who had come from different places and focus on them. It was a good idea, at least from my side. Mary asked me to sign a book of mine that she bought, and I asked her where she was from. “Quebec!,” she said, and I told her I had to do a portrait of her for my “Open Faces” series.

She smiled readily and said, “sure, of course.” Americans were here, but so were a bunch of Canadians as well.