Carol Kroll

A Capitola Review

Today took a beautiful sunny roadtrip out to Platteville WI for a Capitola Review reading/performance. The drive out there was AMAZING. Big skies, big hills, LOTS of green meeting blue & white puffy clouds with sprinkles of red barns here and there. The Driftless Area of WI is just rich. Don’t let anyone tell you different. I know everyone has their connotations about WI, but along with true, they are often not. WI is diverse and beautiful.

No, I didn’t perform today, I was just there to watch and soak it all up. Help when needed. I’ll have my turn to be a part of all this in the fall, and honestly cannot wait.

Today’s reading was housed inside an awesome natural food shop mercantile with the kindest people around. Good crowd. I took pictures with my phone.

Local business at its finest. I have no idea how old this building is, but they have done an amazing job. If you are in the area PLEASE visit The Driftless Market.

While waiting for the show to start, I took a little tour of the store (of course, because I love grocery stores in and of themselves)

Emu meat?! No I didn’t purchase any, but I wanted to. Yum.

What can I say? This is Wisconsin at its finest. CHEESE. LOCAL CHEESE. I was in heaven.

This isn’t just the scene in this venue, this is the scene in a lot of area stores/venues. So cool to see. So cool to hear that currently these places need to restock frequently.

And this is what it is all about folks. Artists, writers, musicians all in one space sharing their craft. A salon of sorts? Such a wonderful thing to experience and witness. Here are some photos.

Had I thought ahead, I would have snapped a shot of the cashier’s desk constructed out of an old door, but hopefully you can see a little bit of the genius-ness of it all from this pix. See the doorknob in the left-hand corner? In all its Alice & Wonderland style? Incredible.

This pix is of a STUFFED OLD COUPLE on the drive home in a grocery store in Spring Green. Don’t you have a stuffed Senior Citizen section at YOUR local grocery store?

I was impressed with the vast array of vintage milk bottles atop the cooler section in this grocery store too. This pix doesn’t do it justice, but it was priceless. The white appearance of the milk were white beads? I will believe that is what it was. Have NO idea what they are made of – though I wonder (?)