John Mayer’s first album, Room for Squares, includes the song called “3 × 5.” In it, he talks about a person who lives life through pictures rather than actually getting out and experiencing it. By the end of the song, the narrator promises to take the person he’s speaking to out into the world with him—no more 3 × 5s. In the spirit of the song, yesterday was a cameraless day for me.
Mark and I spent most of the day touring galleries and talking with gallery managers and artists. It was a relaxing day, but I kept thinking that I’d mislaid my camera. We spent a lot of time talking with Freida at Kiley Court Gallery, which is where we bought the Julian Cardinal painting that we call “Polly”and that’s hanging in our dining room.
We lunched at Fanizzi’s, which has a pleasant room with screened windows and overlooking the bay. Dinner was at The Mayflower. When I told my friend who introduced us to Provincetown, he replied, “Does the food tastes 90 years old?” The average age of The Mayflower clientele is a little higher than Mark’s and mine.
We have more galleries to see today, but I’m taking my camera along. If we buy anything, I’ll post a photo.