Day 2 of Chalk it Up

I'm ending up posting this a day late because my *()&* DSL line is on the fritz again. Gotta get on ATT&T about that.

I thought I'd start out with some pictures that are in progress, or just some other people's work.




Some of the mystery of Chalk it Up is solved. Seems that there are only four board members, some people left the board, two members’ father died and they left taking the computer with the website stuff and probably a lot of other things with them, so in May the current board started reinventing the wheel. Turns out that permits for this thing are very expensive and it took 11 special permits at $300 apiece to get it going. I don’t know what they all are, but I’m sure there’s food vending, parking restriction, alcohol sales, fund raising, and who knows what else. The posters didn’t get done until a week before the event, which meant practically no publicity, and perhaps mailing lists were lost, or whatever. I guess it’s a miracle that they got it going at all.

Several of our friends stopped by today to look at the art and cheer the artists on. That was good, because they really don’t have the crowds this year from previous years. Phyllis & Charlie came up from Albany, Lorna & Ketil came by, Verna and Karen came by separately. It’s always nice to have folks you know come cheer you on, I think.

John’s picture worked out really nicely. He made a sort of a variation on the one woman’s face so it was turned slightly more to the front of the picture. It looks good. He’s really done a nice job on the hand of the woman playing the lute.


After a long, hot day at the park, Lynda and John finally gave up for awhile and went home and showered and put on some clean clothes and go eat dinner. We went to dinner at Buckhorn Grill, Lynda, Tim, Lynda’s brother and sister in law, Jim & Donna, and John and I. But neither one of them can leave it alone, so after dinner we ended up back at the park. Lynda’s picture lends itself to the 3-D effect, so we were trying to see how to take the right picture.




It appears that taking the picture from the bottom left works pretty well. I think she needs to lean her hand on the rocks, too.