Rent Me (409) 684-3131

John Ganis photo from "America's Endangered Coastline" show at Spectrum Gallery in Rochester, New York
John Ganis photo from “America’s Endangered Coastline” show at Spectrum Gallery in Rochester, New York

Someone associated with the photographer, John Ganis, started talking to us about the concept behind the photos before we had even had a chance to look at them. That and running into people you know are some of the hazards of going to an opening on First Friday. Gains documents coastal areas that have already been affected by rising sea levels and records the locations with GPS coordinates and elevations. “Ocean Front Paradise” Rental, Bolivar Peninsula, Texas N 29.53893 W 94.41699 (shown above) is only 5 feet above sea level. This place looks like a double-wide up on stilts. Ganis’s photos are beautiful and we had a good time looking at them without the sales pitch.

It was great to see so many bikes out in front of RoCo, I guess it was free admission if you came on a bike, and then a whole show devoted to the bicycle. Someone told us Rochester was voted the most bike friendly city a hundred years ago. Don’t know if that fact was presented in the show or made up. We’ll have to come back to in this show.

Warren Philips was taking his “OPEN” flag down by the time we found a parking space at the Hungerford building so we just squeezed in. Warren has great taste and always has a nice show, this time lovely watercolors by Mary Orwen. Some friends were raiding the bowl of peppermint patties that he keeps in the back room and someone asked how he keeps from eating them all himself. He said, “I try to limit myself to one peppermint patty a day. Unless I’m feeling sorry for myself. Then I’ll have four or five.”

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  1. I would have to think the ground underneath “Oceanfront Paradise” is only 5 ft above sea level. The structure itself has been raised 12 to 15 ft off the ground. Were it only 5 ft above sea level there would be water underneath it, like 5 ft below it. There is only a 2 ft tide swing in the Gulf. Sorry to get so technical on you Paul. (not)

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