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The Ice Cream Shop
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And Sunday, after another scorcher, and I wait until the sun's gone down to walk up the Gelato shop.
It's the best shop in town, maybe 25 flavours, the kind that's rolled out on a frozen marble slab, absolutely delicious. I have a single, $8.00, reasonable, and I regret it. I should have had a double. A triple even. Do they do triples?
But tonight, getting close, there's a throng of people in the courtyard, a lineup, maybe 20 people deep, inside the shop.
People have caught on. For Ice Cream in town there's DQ - the other end of town, and there's the candy store on Baker - generic ice cream scooped from a tub, and there's another place around the corner, still open, same, generic ice cream from a tub.
I go to the place around the corner, it's empty, and I wonder if the 2 girls working know about the place around the corner? I mean, it's possible they don't if they're always here. And I can't be disappointed, I knew what I was getting, the price is the same but the quality, well, it doesn't even come close to comparing.
Ferraro Foods
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Merely high praise for a grocery store out of Trail and Rossland. Fine specialty Italian foods, pastas, ethnic specialties, general fruit and vegetables, meats, sausages, etc, stopped in on a failed thrift tour of Rossland and was once again amazed at how much better the store is than anything we have in Nelson, the breadth of variety, economy, and quality.
Real Pasta. And for the same price as the Sh*t you buy around town here.
We need one in Nelson. Bad. Until then the once-a-month tour to Trail.
Chrystyna Bykowa
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One of the local artists on display on the gallery opening:
Link: https://www.bykowa.com/
Funny, I passed her on the way out of the gallery, excusing myself that I didn't need to hear the artists spiels; she lives in the building and I didn't know she was an artist or showing or I might have stayed.
Amusing, in that when I see her on the street, or run into her in the common areas of the building she always looks very serious, at odds with what she's creating..."Book by it's cover" and all that....
Gallery Opening
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More there to support the owner than anything else, and maybe hob-nob a bit with the hoity-toity of Nelson.
It takes 5 minutes to survey the exhibition, trees, landscapes, a few abstractions, competent but not good, grab a few hors d'oeuvres, a mocktail, chat briefly with an attractive woman approaching my age, she asks my favourite of the works and I'm at a loss, hopefully she's not one of the artists and I realize I can't possibly hold in my opinions too much longer and bail.
The crowd, mostly in their late 60's to 80's, well attended with about 30 or so people, bloody hell, and the artists are going to speak on their work that requires absolutely no explaining or interpretation - none at all, more excusing than anything, and I'm out...
I was glad of the no wingman, had I been dragged to sit through their speaking - unless their eloquence lay in words (clearly not form or colour), had I had to sit through that I might have topped myself...
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