Castle Art

Elephant made from oil drums.

My hubby and I had a great activity with our grandkids. We try to make a monthly habit of doing “date” with the grandkids but we have done a poor job of it lately. I saw this odd place where an artist displayed his creativity in the middle of Florida - Ona to be exact – it was featured on a local news story. Some guy, Mr. Solomon, created a castle out of old newspaper set-up tins and build art out of parts from appliances, motors, cars, dishes, and other interesting junk. It is called Solomon’s castle . Much of the art was named with "tongue-in-cheek" humor. Emma and Grampy were the most enthralled with the art. Andrew liked the jokes and Grandma liked everybody liking something.

We have a few other blogs about our activities – the truck pull (the loudest and strangest activity), the steam engine ride(historical and great one for pretending to be someone in the late 1800’s), the Lipizzaner stallions (most awe inspiring and remarkable). This one will go down right along side as the oddest but pleasant.

We ate at the Boat- in-a-Moat – which is built at ¾ the size of the Santa Maria. Cannot imagine being in such a small vessel on the dangerous ocean that swallowed behemoths like the Titanic. Food was very good and very home-made but I could not help but think of the Pilgrims who so naively headed to the New Land and had nothing.
Then we went to the gift shop. A nice artisty kind of lady was so encouraging to Emma. We made sure Emma’s artistic tendencies were announced. She told her not to give up and continue to pursue what she loved. Emma told her Mr. Solomon’s art was unique and clever.

All in all it has been one more day for which I thank the Lord that I have lived.

In Solomon style, a "Foot Bridge"

Emma fencing the fence thats fencing