The Tuck Box

The Tuck Box restaurant in Carmel is about as quaint as you can get! It's rare that a car isn't parked in front of it blocking it from view and I would have missed the shot if I hadn't had my trusty camera in my hand! It wasn't long before a car dove into the spot.

You'd think that Carmel is hundreds of miles away rather than right over the hill from where I live, because it's been a couple of years since I wandered about the village! It took a week-long visit from my brother and his wife to get me out the house. Once we found a parking place on a side street we had a blast browsing through shops where they bought a lot of collectibles to add to their collections. A horse statue was added to my collection (www.trailofpaintedponies.com to see Earth, Wind and Fire. Click on Merchandise > native ponies.) I have no idea why I've always been so drawn to horses, but perhaps it's the freedom in which they run and part of me is always trying to escape/run from my life.

I had one request while we were in Carmel and it was granted. I had wanted to see Joan Miro's month-long exhibit in a gallery where I nearly had to leave a deposit on a lithograph just to be able to leave! My mistake was in telling the salesperson that I was in the gallery to see the exhibit and when I passed on purchasing the $5,000-35,000 art pieces she decided I had to have the $900 one. It nearly ruined my time in the gallery having to deal with her hunger to sell me something! My brother wandered off and for a few minutes and she followed, probably thinking that she was chasing the person with the money, wrong, he had no intentions of purchasing anything, but it gave me the opportunity to study Miro's work. I'm always amazed at how essential it is to see work up close and viewing his work left me with a sense of wanting to add some playfulness to my work. Thoughts about that has kept me awake for the last two nights, well that and a killer migraine! Good thing I had something fun to think about and not just the pain.

"The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains, everything which is bare has always impressed me."
Joan Miro, 1958 Twentieth-Century Artists on Art