Little Monster

First hike of the year on Sunday.
Found this little guy at the top of Camel's Hump.

Springtime...

We've been having beautiful weather for the last week or so, and yesterday I finally spent some time walking around Burlington taking pictures. It's been quite a while since I had really walked around town with the only purpose being to take pictures. I ended up taking nearly two hundred shots, so editing will take some time, but it was the perfect morning to do it, especially since it ended up getting cloudy in the afternoon and it's supposed to rain most of next week.

One of the shot I got yesterday:

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Saturday's opening...

So Saturday I had my opening at Irises Cafe and Wine Bar in Plattsburgh.

All last week I was pretty stressed out. Because the restaurant has so much wall space, I needed to have enough work in the show to fill the space. But also because it's a restaurant, I had a very short amount of time to actually hang the show. The combination of transporting a large amount of work and needing to hang it in a short amount of time was only adding to my stress levels.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly. Then all I had to worry about was the opening itself.

Honestly I didn't have great expectations for the turnout. In part because I hadn't done a great deal of advertising for the show. I had been doing so much work just to get paintings completed, that I really didn't have much time left over to concentrate on advertising.

Somehow everything came together. About an hour before the opening, the weather cleared and the sun came out. Which was incredible considering that we were in the middle of a snowstorm the day before.

The big reason the weather was so important though, was because Saturday was also Plattsburgh's first Art Walk. You never know how something is going to go the first time you try it. This went great. From what I've been told, over 200 people came in during the opening to see my artwork. I don't think there would have been near that many people if the opening hadn't coincided with the Art Walk.