day fourteen - ignored

Dawn comes with storm clouds and humidity.  A breezy walk to the park that fronts the Neuse River.  Breakfast of a muffin and iced tea from The Bean.  Check into the hotel at the marina inn so I can do laundry, charge batteries and wait out the weather.

Rain begins at noon.  I sit on the porch and M and M's and enjoy a salad with scallops.  Excellent.

The artists begin showing up on the waterfront.  A couple artists set up near the Town Dock, some more around the corner by the commercial docks.

And they seem to paint every gd boat in the harbor except mine.  I keep hoping, but all the attention goes to the bigger boats.

Shrimp boats and Martijn's Prinses Mia get all the attention.  I am crushed.  How can they take a pass on the prettiest boat on the waterfront?  Mermaids, maybe I need mermaids painted on the site of SPARTINA.  On a phone call I run the idea past my wife and, uh, well, no.

I console myself with fried oysters on a Caesar salad for dinner, a cold beer on the hotel room balcony.  Rejection can be painful.