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Dante's art looks even more impressive when four smaller pieces are assembled and framed to make a single large one.
I love how skillfully she blends vintage imagery with present day themes. Especially how she uses snapshots of her family.
What else? The latest storm is forecast to land almost precisely where we lived and enjoyed ourselves for many years. The northern tip of Longboat Key at our good friends' property on the gulf. Judith's house is a little south in Sarasota and set back a bit from the water. It should be spared. It's a really solid structure built in 1928.
Sometimes you leave a place just before disaster strikes. But on other days you aren't as lucky and step right into it at the worst moment. I don't know if anyone is blessed with a life of perfect timing. It's easy enough to hit the mark for a while. But not forever.
Too often it's out of the frying pan, and into the fire.