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There's an art gallery across from Loblaws that displays canvases in its front windows so people sitting drinking their Starbucks can view them at leisure. One in particular intrigued me. It was an interior scene, very simple: you were looking from either a table or a bed, out the window at a snow covered yard and a pale green fence. Inspected it more closely as I was returning home. It isn't representational at all. It's squares and rectangles in shades of green and cream, perfectly abstract. Checked it out again next time I was at Loblaws. Nope, table, window, yard, clear as day. I don't know if it was intentionally trompe l'oeil or purely accidental but it was very cool. Gallery is now exhibiting someone else and I don't know if they still have the painting. Couldn't go in to check because rain + October mean the walker's wheels are coated in leaf detritus and mud no matter how often I wipe them, but maybe when things dry out.
As I was eating my roast beef sandwich, someone spoke my name. It was Elmtree's dad, here on one of his return trips from Germany, so we chatted about this and that and what all he does archaeologically in Germany. Analyzes prehistoric grains, evidently, to see where they come from and what they say about prehistoric diet. Then came home to SND putting what looked like paper maché mushrooms on poles in her front yard. No, they're squid: the tentacles will light up when it gets dark. They go with the giant green papier maché tentacles her roommate made and was affixing to the porch roof. SND is very into decorating for the various seasons. Of course Oliver is currently having fits and cows at all the People! strange People! coming to the front door!! He's in the yard but can see them through the gate and, as ever, does not approve.
As I was eating my roast beef sandwich, someone spoke my name. It was Elmtree's dad, here on one of his return trips from Germany, so we chatted about this and that and what all he does archaeologically in Germany. Analyzes prehistoric grains, evidently, to see where they come from and what they say about prehistoric diet. Then came home to SND putting what looked like paper maché mushrooms on poles in her front yard. No, they're squid: the tentacles will light up when it gets dark. They go with the giant green papier maché tentacles her roommate made and was affixing to the porch roof. SND is very into decorating for the various seasons. Of course Oliver is currently having fits and cows at all the People! strange People! coming to the front door!! He's in the yard but can see them through the gate and, as ever, does not approve.