You should see the back seat! I belong to Plein Air Artists Colorado and I'm off to my old stomping grounds for a plein air paint out. This coincides with the Wildflower Festival as Crested Butte is known as the wildflower capital of Colorado. I used to live in Crested Butte in the early 80's when there were only 52 year round residents. A time when they joked that the men were men and so were the women. We wore granny skirts and hiking boots and worked and played hard. I opened a cheese shop and deli on the corner of the Stage Stop Building and brought in delicacies that couldn't be found for a hundred miles around us. I also played the piano at a restaurant called Penelopes at night. What a crazy fun time. Any hoo...back to the project at hand :) I feel like I've packed to be gone for the rest of the summer. Panels...check, paint boxes...check, paint brushes...check, bug spray...check, easel...check, sunscreen...check, framing equipment...check, frames...check, rain coat...check, yucky painting clothes...check....AND tequila...check! 63 painters are signed up for 4 days of intense outdoor painting and then what is called a wet wall show at the Oh Be Joyful Gallery on Wed. night where we can enter up to 4 new paintings, created at the event, for jury into the one night show. Wish me luck...Im com'n home, Crested Butte, for some new fangled fun in my old fangled memory world!
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