On the left is a photo of my booth at this years Lewiston Art Show.
Saturday started out so well!! The sun ( I did see it on Saturday morning) was out and it is so nice now that the entire street is closed to traffic- just like Allentown. People have so much more room to stroll the festival, instead of trying to squeeze along the narrow Lewiston sidewalks.
The photo on the right is the featured artist at Lewiston this year, Travis Louie, creating his own chalk walk piece. The photo can't do it justice.
The rain started around 3 or so, the crowds thinned as the afternoon wore on, so we packed up a little early, with hopes of a better day on Sunday.
Sunday began with a nice blue sky, even though the humidity was oppressive. The clouds quickly rolled in, the sky darkened, and then........KA BOOM!! The rain began with large, intermittent raindrops, then quickly it began to pour. People scurried for cover, artists lept to bring their pieces into the "relative" safety of their tents. It got even darker, the lightning got closer and the winds kicked into overdrive. My tent was screwed into the street and the winds lifted it up, and it would have blown away had we not been hanging on to the posts as tightly as we could. The rainwater turned into a current that ran about a foot deep behind my tent. Standing in my tent, hanging on to the metal posts, all the while under a tree while the lightning was hitting so close......was truely frightening. When Bob felt he could safely run for it, he ran to the car, pulled it up to the tent (even though the road was technically closed to vehicular traffic until the show ended) and we as quickly as we possible could, loaded up my "water"colors and fled. We were in the car racing away at 1 pm. I ended up leaving my rug. It was deeply underwater- no sense trying to salvage it.
My paintings all made it out just fine- thanks to the Herculean feats of my husband. Not a great way to end the art festival season! But now is actually a fun time for me. I'll be participating in some gallery shows in the fall, and I get to spend more time "in studio" where I truely long to be. No rainstorms in my studio!!!!
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