After lunch, we drove to Ocala to go to the Appleton Art Museum. It was not crowded and we really had the galleries to ourselves.
Mr. Appleton donated most of the art work or gave them money to purchase art.
There was Pre-Columbian Art, New World "Treasures," Asian, and Victorian art on the first floor.
Also on the first floor was an impressionist exhibit of American women artists on loan from the Huntsville Museum of Art.
The second floor had 34 works of sculpture done by Chick Schwartz: Cedar Key Artist. His work is very interesting and abstract.
Also on the second floor was an impressive collection of Mr. Appleton's art, including a Rodin - The Thinker!
The brochure that we picked up at the Museum
The outside of the building - they were working on the stairs, so we had to enter from a side entrance
A fountain leading to the entrance
Terry and an outdoor piece of art
The Thinker
We stopped at Diane and Tom's for my mail (this was the first week that my mail arrived later than Terry's).
Ethel and Steve picked us up and we went to Sharon and Norm's for a delicious dinner. And, yes, they did taste the hamentashen and no one keeled over!
Almost forgot: I had posted the weather in The Villages on a friend's page on Facebook. The friend just took a job in Florida and is moving from the Chicago Area.
From that posting, I got an email from another past president of our REALTOR Board letting me know that she had just moved down here. We talked and will try to get together, but our time is limited before we leave. Small world.
It's been a full day and it is now time to go to bed.
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