A hard choice

The i-Phone rings while we're on the beach. 'Of course we've not forgotten' says 'The Font' diplomatically to a woman who's showing a picture at an art exhibition in Edinburgh. So it is our plans for a lazy Sunday morning change and we find ourselves in the Volvo heading back into the big city. Thankfully, Sunday morning traffic on the Forth Crossing is light and we're in the outskirts of  town in an hour and fifteen minutes.

I'd expected the exhibition to be one of those cramped , badly lit, affairs full of 'well meaning' approximations of art. It turns out to be a gem. The quality of work on offer is outstanding although strangely, as its a watercolour exhibition, many ( perhaps most)  of the canvases are in oil.

All the works are for sale. For some reason artists from San Pedro in California are also included in this peculiarly Scottish event. The lady behind the desk says the exhibition was held in San Pedro in 2018 and this is a way of saying thank you. She is unsure, as are we,  where exactly San Pedro is or why the annual show should have been held there. Perhaps there's a lost colony of Scots living in California ?

These are the pictures we might be tempted to buy but it's difficult to whittle the choice down to just one

Winter Castle Drummond

Simple Table

Memories of India

The Circus Journal (L)  and Tempus Fugit (R)

Red October

And finally, high up on a wall, Celebration.

Which one would you settle on ?

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