I visited the Gasparilla show yesterday and talked to some friends. I had a good time but it was windy but manageable. Not so this morning. It rained overnight and booths got wiped out. It's noon now and I hear people are packing up. This pic is taken from Mathew Hatala's FB page:
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LOL! I have so many projects going on that one of my few pleasures is getting in here and reading and playing with the members. Wish I had time to read everything and comment. Thanks everyone.
Now back to business...
If Connie is so bored that she's correcting spelling mistakes, we need to get her to spend her time more productively. Somebody page Munks and Holly!
I misspell all the time, got fat fingers who hit the wrong key. Like Melanie said, it is the meat that counts most.
Since I was the first one who chastised anybody for bad spelling and grammar, including Nels, I am guilty as charged. I've made 2 spelling gaffs in recent weeks. I have no excuse AND I am laughing!! Thanks for calling me out.
Lori is right: We were VERY lucky in Venice. The wind was coming from the NW, and the street (Venice Ave.) runs east-west, so the buildings blocked some of it. Gusts up to about 35 mph most of the day on Sunday. I'm sure some gusts were higher when the front actually came through about 6:30 a.m.
I didn't walk the show, but I did see a couple a tent roofs blown off, and a sculptor on the corner near me had a piece blown right off its pedestal and shattered on the pavement.
Surprisingly, the crowds came out anyway. Sunday was actually a better sales day for nearly everyone I spoke with. Venice isn't a particularly high end show, but the residents sure do support it by their attendance and their (small, but consistent) purchases.
**I hope everybody, newbie and veteran alike, reads Nels' post on taking down a tent in high winds. **
Being a former English teacher and spelling bee participant misspelled words bother me almost as much as they do Nels. On this site I have the ability to edit, which I rarely employ, but did fix the "devastation" in the headline above, and furthermore, corrected three spelling errors in Nels' post, "An Insiders Look..."
Here I was safely ensconced in snowy Michigan huddled around the space heater and worried about family in Tennessee and southern Indiana friends and thinking you all in Florida were well. Glad to hear that so far everyone made it out safely.
I think for the most part, with a few exceptions, in Venice we escaped the worst of it. Don't get me wrong it was WINDY but manageable and the crowds turned out making for a pretty decent weekend. But I'm bone weary from being buffeted all day by the wind. My heart goes out to all our fellow artists that suffered loses.
Any part of Florida make it through OK this weekend? Parts of Las Olas got hit bad with wind today. I have never seen anything like it. Very upsetting and scary. Sorry no pics, too hard to hang on to a tent, move art, mangles walls and tent parts to take pics. I think all the artist are on the road or home safe now. Reports later after well deserved drinks tonight.
that Matthew. He could be a hell of a photographer. He is always at the right place at the right time. Still love those naked women at Ann Arbor--that is timeless---wish I had taken them. Aloha Nui, and don't smoke too much pakalolo, brah!
Good report Barry, see mine too. BTW it is "Devastation", but who knows, maybe up in the UP it is "Devistation." Just yanking your chain in a good-natured way, Nels.
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