On my family’s weekly outing to buy pie (strawberry - rhubarb this time) at The Farm in Salinas, California, I focused on finding country art.
The garden furniture art at The Farm is welcoming and rather regal with its armrests:
The large painting of squash and flowers on the entrance sliding door almost qualifies as a mural: To enlarge the image, place your fingers on the image and spread them apart.
Artist Diane Grindol, who has studied art in France, sells notecards at The Farm with samples of her artwork on them. I love notecards with artwork. I have some notecards by Big Sur artist Erin Gafill that I have sent to my family in Connecticut, Wisconsin, and Georgia. Notecards help with cash flow and publicity. Grindol’s notecard we bought follows:
A trip to the farm would not be complete without food decorative art like the squash beauties below:
The goats have the art of leisure down as they lazily wake up in the morning sun:
My daughter Florence Paget, husband Laurent Paget, and I enjoyed our morning at The Farm and came home with heirloom tomatoes and a strawberry-rhubarb pie (rhubarb has a large amount of Vitamin K, which is important for healing wounds and blood clotting).
The Farm is a local country outing that young families might enjoy as well.
By Ruth Paget, author Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
