FLORIDA's Mount Dora Annual Art Festival 2010

Just eighteen days after our arrival in Bushnell, FL we received these photos by e-mail from our sons in Ohio !!! Nineteen inches, WOW, are we glad that we are out of there! And they are anticipating six to eight more inches tonight, just four days later. We have had rain and lower temps while they are having snow. But we can handle that as there are days of sun occasionally with t-shirt temps. We even went to our favorite Annual Art Festival in Mount Dora, FL. It was windy that day but comfortable. We spent three hours walking the streets taking pictures. Some of the vendors were the same artwork, but many new ones also. We did not see the Italian artist that we saw last year, but there was a French fellow who had a Bronze award received in France this past year. I did not take pictures of his work, since I got yelled at last year for taking those of the Italian's work. Not that we could ever copy their beautiful work!!! The streets were very crowded , and there was plenty of activity going on in the local cafes . And the boutiques were encouraging new patrons to visit them. We took this photo of the gal advertising for The Secret Garden and she reminded us of you, Hope. So just had to have her photo!! As we walked from booth to booth we noticed the clouds rolling in over head . And by time we got home it was raining, but up north you woke up to the SNOW. The art was visible before we even got to our first booth, as it begins on the outside of their booth . We will let you wander through with us

. We go from paintings to photography , metal sculpture to pottery and glassware to framed pencil art with antique objects and a collage of old postcards which I especially liked. While talking with this artist's helper, we had to prove to Gary that HAPPY is better!! Eh, Sandy??? Gary thought it was acrylic and I thought colored pencil. And I was RIGHT!! And Gary is a pencil artist! The pieces were beautiful and the fellows had a good laugh! I am sure they would have been happier if we had been buying! Uh, maybe next time. By this time the crowd was even moving very slow and we were getting tired. So we stopped to listen to these young fellows make music with their garbage cans and buckets , while we enjoyed a sandwich. They were very good!! Note, Richie, it's not what you play, but how well you play!!

As we walked to the bus stop we decided to detour past the lake. Wow, was it windy and there was still condos between us and the lake!!

Now take care and watch for our next venture!