By Thomas Thorspecken
I started seeking out landmarks from around Lake County to sketch. The Yalaha Bakery is Yalaha’s only tourist attraction.
Traffic on 48, the road the bakery is on, is intense but I got used to it during the sketch. A friend told me that during bike week this place gets insanely packed with motor cycles. I plan to return to do a series of sketches on that week. I have been inside the bakery twice now. The first time I had strudel which is delicious and the second time I had a coconut delight and it was life changing. It takes every ounce of will power to keep me from returning to the bakery again and again to experience that taste sensation once again. I just told my sister Pat that if I am in extreme pain after my surgery today, she should get a Coconut delight and I am certain that any pain will disappear.
Today I can not have breakfast and bloody hell I desperately want to make a scrambled egg with butter slathered on a toasted Thomas’s muffin. Maybe I shouldn’t write about it since it seems to be making me more hungry. I’ll go have a cup of water that should hold me until I am put under anesthesia. Anyway today waiting for surgery should be a good sketching experience. I have a mini sketch kit in my day bag. I will be in the hospital overnight so that must be a sketch opportunity. I heard nurses come in every half hour to draw blood or get blood pressure so that could be many quick sketch opportunities.