Saturday, 13 September 2014
On the way back from the Cannon Beach Cottage tour, I remembered that tonight was Astoria Art Walk night and that an acquaintance was having a show called “Sock Monkey Album Covers”. We decided to stop by the Street 14 Coffee House and see for ourselves.
I do not understand the sock monkey fetish, but it is very big at my favourite bookstore, Ilwaco’s Time Enough Books.
The Commodore Hotel lobby seems to share space with the coffee house, and is a space that I find beautiful.
We decided to walk down a couple of blocks and check out a new-ish store with garden decor among its offerings.
Wine and appetizers were on offer, but we were on our way to dinner. Allan thought maybe we could have fast food at the Roller Derby…
I wanted to pass on the Roller Derby and go to Indian Cuisine and Allan agreed. It was very placid and dull of me, I think now. The delicious food, however, made us very happy.
After dinner, on our five block walk back to the van, I looked with nostalgia upon all the bars and clubs hopping with young folk, and reminisced how that was my life once. I wish I had taken some photos of the windows glowing in the dusk on such a rare warm coastal evening; the only photo I took was one of a ship on the river.
I had a revelation and told Allan we did not have to move to Astoria to experience it; we could just rent a place for a couple of months, and after that I would probably be happy to move back to my quiet Ilwaco home. I couldn’t do such a thing while my cats are alive though; they would miss me too much.
Okay, someday we’re going to have to do Himani together; I really should go with people who are truly knowedgable. Besides, it’s more fun that way.
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That would be great. We can share dishes. Maybe on your early October visit.
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Thanks for stopping by to see my monkeys! 🙂
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Loved the Ramones cover!!
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It looked like a beautiful evening. I liked your last picture a lot.
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Thanks so much!
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Placid? Dull? Hardly! But then, I guess I prefer the stillness the last photo represents over the maddening crowd ANY day. I love that wall of “found” objects in the hotel lobby….and many of “your” planters outshine those in Astoria, in my opinion. (I’m actually not so fond of the green-bottomed look.)
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Wow, thanks, cos I feel rather inferior to Astoria. 😉
I too like placid now as you will soon see when I rhapsodize for days over my visit to a bookish hotel.
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