We wandered Apalachicola for the early part of the day. Visiting many shops and meeting lots of folks. Among those met was Gil Autrey whose wife runs her own photography store. The last name begged me to ask if he is any relation to 1920s Mayor L.M. Autrey of Orlando. He’s Mayor Autrey’s grandson. What’s more Gil was a Mayor himself of Valdosta, Georgia. We had a great talk.

Then the storms came. I needed to get back to the Gibson Inn to work on a project. The storms had another idea. The intense storm blew through and blew out the electricity. Not just to the hotel, but to the entire city. I could have worked on the laptop computer anyway. The concern was that we had no idea when electricity might return and what if I drained the computers battery? The storm raged on and we took a nap.

Later the electricity returned and left and returned and left and seemed to finally have returned for good. We made our way to a restaurant named Verandas Bistro at about 8:30. The folks at the restaurant said our timing was good because their electricity had returned only twenty minutes earlier.

I had earlier finished the sketch book that the sketches in this blog come from. I had started it April 12th of last year and it almost made a year. I began the new one with the drawing of Sandra above. There was a fellow playing saxophone on the outside veranda. Karl Dappen is great and we were shocked that he had the Jimmy Van Heusen tune, ‘Apalachicola, F-L-A’ was on his song list. The song opens the Hope and Crosby film, ‘Road to Rio’ and it was on our song list during our wedding. Dappen adapted the tune for saxophone and despite the tricky notes in the music Dappen played an incredible rendition! Here are a couple sketches of Dappen playing.