We had a very nice seafood lunch in town and then visited a museum of Mardi Gras costumes from the local celebration, quite elaborate and flashy, like New Orleans but on a small scale. In the floor above that small display was a museum of Folk Art and antique collectables of Alice Moseley.
She was 65 years old when she started her paintings never having picked up a brush before that. In a video she told that after a painting was complete it was hard to come up with a title so she came up with witty sayings first and then put those thoughts into her paintings. One titled "three sheets in the wind" had a man with his jug sitting down by the pond and the family had hung three white sheets on the clothes line to let the preacher know to pass right on by at this time. Another titled "How could I know that they would all grow" shows herself standing in front of her house with her yard full of colorful flowers, we bought a small print of that one.
It was a very pleasant afternoon.
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