Arts Alive

Apparently, I will do just about anything to get out of working on my seminar paper (which is due in just 11 days) -- even venture out all alone on a rainy night to Arts Alive in Eureka.

I was fortunate enough to meet the famous Kristabel at a gallery downtown. Even though we had just met, we fell into each other's arms like old friends.
After that, I went meandering around town under my red umbrella. It was marvelously cool out, but a little stuffy inside the stores, so I kept moving.

Here are a few of the sights I saw:

These two geese inexplicably reside in Old Town Eureka.
They'll kick your ass if you come too close.
I did a little window shopping. Evening gowns in pink silk; a girl can dream, I mean, in case I get invited to the Academy Awards or something.
This bagpipe player added a certain moodiness to the rain-wet evening.
Eureka Books: I noticed again how beautiful the facades are on these buildings in Old Town.
Seen from the vantage point of the fountain, crowds of young teenagers congregate.
Is it a wharf? Is it a boardwalk? Is it a pier? What is it?
This place is going for the boardwalk theme, with this cool new fortune-telling machine, like in the movie Big
The water in the Bay was as still as glass.

I like the juxtaposed signage here, the lingerie and sex toy shop sign with the old sign is still just under it.

Some other interesting things I experienced:

• Licorice ice cream, mmmmm.
• A young woman standing outside the closed Restoration Hardware store, unsuccessfully hawking her paintings for a dollar.
• An amazing presentation inside Los Bagels about artists who have gone blind, how they've coped, how they've continued to be creative.
• A really bad singer with an accordion.
• A rocking band inside the shoe store, not getting any attention because the feng shui of the venue was so bad.
• The chocolate shop, too crowded for me to buy a truffle, darn it.
• The high energy that rolls off middle-schoolers like waves of electricity, wow!
• The unused doorway of the travel store, where I once found a small wad of cash years ago.
• A new yarn shop as cozy as a cottage, with two ladies peacefully spinning yarn and a nice old man asking if he can offer you a glass of wine.

When the sun went down, I went to the Co-op for delicious, exotic groceries including a Meyer's lemon that I intend to do something delicious with tomorrow. Exotic grocery of the day: "So Delicious" coconut milk yogurt.