Shops and Offices

An office along the Tamiami Trail (Route 41) always catches my eye.  It is home to places like dentists' and doctors' offices, massage and nail salons, real estate and insurance agencies and

a variety of other small businesses.

Another building with comparable tenants a little further south also catches my eye.

Dennis

I wandered into a small art gallery on a side street off Route 41 in Naples.  

Dennis showed me some of the colorful abstract paintings his partner Brad and he make.

Josie Again

I saw Josie again, this time at a coffee shop.

Fog

A foggy morning greeted Naples yesterday.  It burned off around noon.

Curt

Curt was outside his real estate office enjoying some fresh air.  I asked him about how business is.

(I am neither buying nor selling . . . just curious.)  

Sales are up considerably from a year ago, surprisingly so after Irma.
Buyers are looking for new construction, so a lot of the activity is in East Naples.

Naples New Year's Art Show - III

My photographs from the weekend art show end today.

Glory Sheba Spinuzzi is from Sri Lanka.  She is a self taught artist who focuses on seascapes and still lifes.  Many artists' rendering of waves seem wooden to me, but Glory's paintings capture the light, movement and force beautifully.  Glory has been on this blog before with a still life.

Linda Heath's father talked her out of an art career out of college, so she spent years in commercial real estate and diplomatic service.  In Japan on business, she saw Gyotaku, the art of daubing fish and other marine life in paint and rolling them on rice paper.  She was hooked.  It is what she does now.

Lorri Honeycutt is a photographer with a sense of humor.  She stages photographs with the miniature people used in model train sets to make her viewers look twice.

Dennis Goodman is a Naples fine arts photographer who specializes in wildlife and nature. 

You see some alligators and the Naples Pier on the wall behind Dennis.

Naples New Year's Art Show - II

Second of three days showing artists at the New Year's Art Show.

Jason Pavalonis was my favorite photographer at this year's show.  He offered big, clean photographs.  I loved the photo behind him of a Hungarian waterfront scene in fog.  He also showed a terrific

 spiral staircase photo and a photo of three masked Venetian women dressed for Carnevale.

Anna Saulino is from the East Coast of Florida now, after spending a few years on 

an Italian island.  She makes gold and silver jewelry.  

 I dress conservatively and traditionally, but I like to see colorful and funky clothes.

Robert Stadnycki's booth had a big sign, "OK To Have Too Much Fun!"  True.  

Maybe I am going to be posting monthly photographs of fabric artist Jane Vallejo. 

She is not afraid of color, either.