Southwest Arts Festival at Empire Polo Grounds

Went over to Almar today and looked at our paint job, it's coming along really well. The walls are pearl white, and the cupboards and drawers are a warm beige. The ceilings are painted white too. They were very busy over there getting ready for tomorrow's rummage sale which will be held from 8 - 1. We may play our flutes for a couple of songs there.

Then we went over to Indio to the Empire Polo Grounds to attend the Southwest Arts Festival, it's a gorgeous sensory blast of very high end art, jewellry, painting, sculpture, photography, glass art, pottery, it is just a wonderful show, and in the warm sunshine even better. A lot of it is mind blowing stuff, so beautiful, I believe it is a juried show and there are exhibitors from all over the US. It's on the lawns at the polo grounds.

I bought a small glass heart, some niobium earrings, a lovely book of photos by John Parkinson, wow and more wow, he has photos and poetry combined. His work is so lovely, he inscribed the book for us.

We also bought some very nice steel art figures for the house, Kokopelli, an indian dancer and a cave painting like dancer, they are about 6 inches high, and very attractive.

We came home and ate spaghetti up at the clubhouse here, after previewing the rummage sale at Almar, where we bought a blanket and a vase.

That's about it for today, but I remembered the words of the song for the red dress number that made us laugh so much at the Laughing Bird music performance on Weds. night.

"The only thing different, the only thing new,
I've got your picture, and she's got you."

and as she sang those lines she hauled another item out of the front of her flashy red dress bodice. It was just hilarious, especially when she hauled out the golf club and then the full length fishing rod.