Today I’m happy to be home from all of my summer
travels. This past week I was
hurriedly weaving new pieces featuring birches and water, a genre that has been
well received. I’ve been improving
my technique for making the water more realistic and the foreground elements
more elaborate and dimensional.
I’m really pleased with all my latest pieces. I also completed my ‘Eat Your Veggies’ composition. This is the one that features tomato
slices, onions, peas and other vegetables. The components have been my travel companions as I completed
each of the foreground vegetables on my summer travels. The good news is that all my most
recent pieces sold at the Loring Park Art Festival in Minneapolis over the weekend. The even better news is that I’m safely
back home with my family after a very long drive.
The Loring Park fair itself was a lot of fun to do. The fair itself is organized around a very
pretty lake. Nearby are fountains,
trails, a pool, flower gardens, basketball hoops and more attractions that help
bring in people. From the moment I
got there the organizers impressed me as welcoming and efficient. I (OK, Jim) was able to drive the car
and trailer around the pond right to my spot Friday afternoon. We set up on a beautiful summer
afternoon and prepared for the show over the weekend. A weather front that produced heavy rains and winds moved
through the area Friday night, but fortunately my booth and art survived the
storm without any problems.
Saturday and Sunday morning the organizers drove around with juice,
water, fruit and treats.
I liked
the fact that they came to me to check in and see how things were going. I had two beautiful days with sunny
skies in the upper seventies, which brought out the friendly art appreciators
of Minneapolis. Takedown was just
as easy, and within an hour and a half we were on the road out of town toward
Tomah Wisconsin, our waypoint on the long drive home.
When I got home I stepped back into the home stretch of the
Fourth Street Festival here in Bloomington. A lot still has to happen for the show to come together, but
I feel good about the efforts of the organizing committee. It’s going to be another good
year. This year we’re going to
have something new on Dunn Street.
We’re hosting Art Cars, which is really Dawn Adam’s brainchild. Laura Lane, a writer for the Herald
Times, put out the call for the cars.
I don’t know exactly what to expect, but there are likely to be mosaics,
painted cars, and other embellishments on vehicles. I’m looking forward to seeing some fun and funky cars. These aren’t cars you’ll see at the
dealership or the NASCAR track, so plan to be in town Labor Day weekend.
Did I say I was glad to be home? I sure am! I
spent the drive crocheting leaf clumps, so I know there’ll be a bunch of trees
in my future. I’m still channeling
more birches and lakes, thinking about how we need more rain. The corn was really painful to see along
the expressway all the way to Minnesota.
I do have my own little bright spot in the gardening world, though,
which features a volunteer squash in the garden by the front door.
This is where the hamster bedding and
uneaten seeds were used as mulch over the winter, and one little squash plant germinated
this summer. I run a dehumidifier in
my art studio, and that leaves me a bucket of water to empty every
morning. My little squash gets all
she needs. I don’t know what kind
of a squash it will yield, but I do know I’m planning on eating them! Maybe if I get a lot I can make a
squash pie. Hmmm, that just gave
me an idea, now that peach season is in full swing! And we’ll get to the farmer’s market on Saturday!
Until next week…
Martina Celerin
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