Pete & Tom

My dear friends, Pete & Tom left a snowy, bitter cold New Jersey behind to come down to sunny Macon NC for the weekend. This was a perfect ending to a very hectic-if-it-can-go-wrong-it will (and it did) week. A great reunion of eating, drinking and catching up on what’s happening in our lives filled Saturday to the brim.

On Sunday, roaming around the Art Museum of North Carolina, delighting in the varied styles of art, we came upon something different. Across the wide expanse I spotted a huge face of Mona Lisa, hanging upside down. Curious, we sauntered over to check it out at close range. Devorah Sperber created “After Mona Lisa 2” out of 5,000 (+ or – please don’t rely on my numbers) spools of brilliantly colored thread. Looking through the glass globe situated in front of the artwork, the creation looked upright. It’s worth the trip to Raleigh just to see this piece. Remarkable.

Also remarkable is the lunch we ravished while listening to the grand piano playing in the background at the Blue Ridge Restaurant in the lower level. My goat cheese & rosemary tart served with a divine salad was presented on a large, white plate shaped like an artist’s palette, complete with a hole for the thumb. Neat.

Tom did a lot of ummmms devouring his burger with Roquefort cheese ‘n fries and Pete didn’t talk at all until his special plate of mole chicken (?) salad embellished with spicy deviled eggs.
We were a happy, stuffed threesome when we left.