David & Marian Cortesi
En route from Durham to Columbia we stopped for lunch in Charlotte, NC, said to be the 2nd-largest financial center after NYC, where the tops of the many skyscrapers were disappearing in the afternoon fog.
Downtown was decorated for the season with cheerful reindeer on every lamppost.
The center of downtown Charlotte is The Square, which is defined by four heroic statues.
One is a prospector who appears to be dumping his paydirt onto a dude whose bow-tie is too tight,
One is a stalwart worker sitting on an eagle with a bow-tie,
One is a mother & child,
And we forget the fourth because we were busy reflecting on modern art.
Tomorrow: Columbia, SC.
