You know when you see something that you just love, but you don’t buy it, then you can’t stop thinking about it? That happened to me at Addison Antique in Palo Alto _ an eclectic shop with everything from deer-footed lamps to Louis IV furniture. It’s on the corner of Addison and Alma, right across the street from Anthropologie.

Well, there in a dark corner was a dark painting _ but to me it had such life! Couples dancing in an impressionistic bar scene with a small jazz group behind them playing the night away. It reminded me of a painting in the living room of my Lookiloo partner Desiree _ a painting she sees through her front window when she comes home at night and gets the feeling there’s a party going on inside. The painting at Addison Antique is from the 1960s and was about $400 _ more than I was ready to spend. I still think about that painting. And if it’s not there when I’m ready to buy, if I’m ever ready to buy, I hope it goes to a good home.

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