April 2, 2012
After breakfast we decided to walk to the grocery store before it got to hot. The grocer store is about a mile and a half from our boat. On the way back we stopped in Don Wood’s studio to take a picture of one of his signs. He is originally from Hendersonville , North Carolina Florida where he was operating heavy equipment. Now he is a local artist. His studio is a wooden structure that might not seem like an artist studio. The structure is as modest as he his. I didn’t take a picture, I just thought that was to invasive. Several of the things he has laying around are worth in the thousands of dollars. He has sculptures of fish, eagles and other beauties of nature. No order to his presentation of these treasures. If fact it resemble an old shed you might see on the T.V. show The Pickers. He carves fish and other objects out of all kinds of wood. He also has a lot of metal sculpture. When we came in to see him today he wanted me to see some pictures of his wooden fish sculptures. He gave me a picture of a Christmas card, the card had a Christmas tree made out of coral and fish decorating it with a string of pearls. Inside the message was “Joy from our fishes in the deep blue sea”. He then showed me the original picture he had painted and the scripture he had done of this scene. The original painting, which he painted, sold for $2,500. He retained to rights to the picture and he will not sell the scripture. I did buy one of his Curly Tail Charms. When we started to go he said come on, set down and talk to me while I work. I really wanted to but the half and half I had bought was getting warm. Some people talk about doing what they dream of doing and some just do it. He could be the person Zac Brown sings about in Knee High in the Water Some Where. Don, I admire you for being you.
The following pictures are a few of my favorite signs. The last two are in Don’s door way.
Finding our own piece of paradise
George and Freida
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