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Finally!

 

I have gotten around to adding descriptions to the Lighthouse postings in the Fine Art America galleries under, strangely enough, the "Lighthouse Gallery".  The lighthouse images in the "Sepia and Black and White Gallery" are also updated.

 

  Oh, and I hope you are clicking through to all the links I'm putting into the text.  That's my lame way of getting you to look at the artwork in the strange hope that you will buy something.

 

  Furthermore, think wall groupings....that's three or more pieces of one category making an interesting statement.  You can get any hangings, in any presentation of your choosing, from FAA

and there is a 30 day satisfaction guarantee with not questions asked.

 

 

Or for instance

 

 

 

Now there is a reason to look at these images other than..."Gee they purty"!  Or...."Look George, you have that same picture"!  There is actually some useful information there, and George may not have that part of it.  Look for something called "Description" and forget about the grammar and spelling...or Miss spelling for that matter.  It makes it all quaint!

 

It seems like this week and next will be devoted to getting ready for the show in Angle Sea in New Jersey, at the Hereford Inlet Lighthouse.  For those of you in North Jersey...It's at the shore!  North Wildwood!  The event is Oct. 20 and 21.  I will be there from around ten am till six each day.  Bring money!  I mean, I love your smile but the green makes me smile and I don't want to be left out of the conversation!

This is my first show in two years and it will probably shorten my life by an equal amount of time spent on my feet brow beating potential buyers.  But it is fun and if the weather holds should be worth my while.  And besides I get to see old friends and they do make me smile!

 

I have done this show, which is actually the NJ Lighthouse Challenge, for a number of years and the weather has always been perfect with only one exception. 

October 2009!!!!

A Noreaster blew for of course three days...That's what noreaster's do.  As you can see from this photo, there are two outstanding aspects of most beach towns.  The first is that electric wires are a state wide economic boom for the electric and phone companies.  Try to fly a kite on this street!  The second is that the towns tend to flood during big storms.  Hey...It's a barrier island.  Surrounded by water.  With Tides...you know up and down.  In or out!  And when the wind is pushing the big pond westward, well your town tends to flood.  We even had to move my part of the show into the gazebo with temporary walls.  Some of the other lighthouse were closed because of flooding in their respective towns.  Not us!  Amazingly, the number of attendees was about the same as the previous year with perfect weather .  We are, after all, lighthouse freaks and not much keeps us away from a party!

 

In Good weather this is what the place looks like!  At least beach side.

 

 

And the back door, which was once the front door........or at least the door facing the ocean.  The Victorian gardens are enough to draw tourists from all over the world.  And that is only about an eighth of the gardens.

 

Great place and great people.  If you're in the area please stop by or for that matter go do the challenge.  You have two days to get to all the lights and it makes a fun trip.

 

There will be about a baker's dozen lights open to the public over the two day span and participants in the challenge must get to every one of the participating lighthouses.  If you manage to complete the tour, you get a seventy five cent award of some kind.   It's fun and we lighthouse freaks love to see, get together, tell stories (lies mostly), and just have a generally wholesome time.

 

For those of you aspiring photographers, artists, curmudgeons, crafters and other near to wells.... there will be more to come about show prep later this week. 

 

 Now I do have to get to work!  Well, maybe coffee first.