No AI or sleight of hand here. This is Joan standing next an enormous something next to the front door of the Zanesville (Ohio) Museum of Art. Joan is not 3′ 6″, she is almost 5′ tall, so this is one big something.

We stopped by the museum today. We had been by about six months ago and thought Michelle and Joan would like it. It is a very well curated small museum. You can see much of its holdings of about 8000 objects online.

One of its best collections is its extensive ceramics and pottery collection, unsurprising as many of these pieces were crafted in Zanesville. Here are some random examples.

They also have some fine examples of paintings from well known European artists, from Ohio artists, and even from Grandma Moses.

Another one of their collection from the 1860s is both anonymous and extremely well done.

Before reaching Zanesville for lunch we drove through downtown Pittsburgh, maybe the first major downtown Joan has ever seen, other than Washington and New York. And she was clesrly interested in how different Pittsburgh and Washington looked in so many ways.

Clearly, this is not Washington.

We also stopped in the small Ohio town of Cadiz to see Clark Gable’s boyhood home.

Sadly, at least at this time of year, it is by appointment only. So we drove on.

But not before looking at the beautiful 1894 Harrison County Courthouse.

Other than that, pretty scenery, good food (Muddy Miser in Zanesville and Galo’s in Richmond IN), and an on time arrival in Richmond.

Nations beat the Brewers two games in a row.

Tomorrow…St. Louis.