Pi Day -- grateful for a constant in the month of Change

Stand Back for the Pie

Acrylic on canvas

24 x 24 inches

© Barbara Muir 

I feel lucky to be married to a quirky man who is a big fan of science

and math.  That's particularly nice as I am interested in science, but not

 good at math. Although oddly enough every now and then lately

I have been wizard at it!  Each year Steven (my husband) and I mark

Pi Day -- the 14th of the third month -- March, by eating "pie". According
 to the Huffington Post Pi Day is named after the Greek symbol π which
 is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The first three
 digits in Pi are 3 (this is the third month) and 14 (the fourteenth day)
= 3.14 or Pi

This year instead of getting a whole pie we bought wonderful tarts, and

served them on my grandmother's good china, with ice cream.  What

a treat.  We sing Happy Pi Day to the tune of Happy Birthday -- appropriate

because it is Einstein's birthday. 

I have featured this painting on Pi day for a number of years because it seems

to say it all -- celebration, the perfection of flowers -- and the pie is Steven's

cherry pie -- the last from our cherry tree (now gone).  My mother was a 

bacteriologist, and also entranced with all things science.  I think of her

every year on this day too (and on every other day!)

Hope you had a wonderful Pi day.