Pond Display

The pond continues to explode in growth, especially the several plants sitting in the middle, and, of course, the lilies.

But as we walked outside from our little porch to head towards the pond this morning, the floral display greeting us was quite wonderful. First the Hibiscus . . .

 

Then the rose mallow finally burst forth into color, after a several weeks wait while dozens of buds gathered.

 

And of course, the rose mallow sits amidst a display of our hummingbird vines and flowers that the little hummers love to suck on.

August Art Walk

Ahhh, see, we haven't even had the June Art Walk, and already I'm fussing about the August Art Walk, now scheduled for August 23rd.  Since I seem to like the pot pourri idea, I may bill this one as a Winter's Departure and Summer's Arrival Pot Pourri--a bit of this and a bit of that.  They're a bit all over the map, I'm afraid. Different places, different objects of art, different sizes. They will all be on canvas (assuming I don't run out of canvas or money first, and the sizes range from 24 inches wide to 60 inches. A few you may have seen before in a slightly different incarnation.

 

 

Bali Hai

 

Darjeeling Sunrise



 

 

Glassy



 

Glassy Too

 

Rose Glasses

 

Leafy Glass

 

Trolley

 

Downtown

 

Jackie O Lake

 

Midtown

  

Russian Eye Candy

 

 

  

To Everywhere

 

Thaaaat's All Folks . . .

 



The Art Walk in June is scheduled for June 14th. Still playing around, but the following are some possibilities for that Art Walk. They mix some wintry scenes, with some color Infrared, and some recent Spring pictures. So, enjoy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Art

So, our little winter Art Walk has come and gone. As opposed to the normal crowd of 400- 600 people, we had maybe 100 tops. And as opposed to the norm of 20-30 artists we had maybe 8. Partly, the weather is to blame--high 30s and drizzling--not conducive to attracting a crowd of art patrons. The shrinking artist population is also partly weather, but mainly, I fear, because the artists may be tiring of subsidizing downtown business with little or no reward (that's sales). It looks possible that this event could simply dry up and disappear.  But we'll see.
Concord has two upcoming artsy events--the Spring Art Walk in April and then a Spring Into the Arts event downtown in early May (4th). The latter is sponsored by the downtown business group and will feature artists of all types displaying their works on main (Union) street. The downtown closes to traffic for this affair. It's more expensive for artists to participate, but also potentially more lucrative in terms of sales.
Should I elect to participate in either/both of these events (still doubtful) I would enter some or all of the pictures shown below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, maybe . . . we'll see . . .