In the Land of Never Enough Time ~ We made time for Art.
Home.
We are home from a whirlwind trip to Florida making many stops along the way.
After my alarm went off this morning, I read an email from a friend saying sorry we couldn’t get together while I was visiting family.
Traveling back to Florida is like that.
The optimism of my expectations clashes with the reality of three children who have expectations and so many hours in a day. I don’t seem to juggle that very well. But we did manage to make a stop at the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival which has been going on as long as I can remember.
It’s huge and fun and full of creative things from all over the country. I get to go with my mom and hear her say like she has said since 1970-something,
“Is all this stuff art? Why do they clutter it up with all this stuff?”
I enjoy it all. Took my youngest little creative spirit and he hung in there pretty good.
Most of which I recorded in photos is not traditional art. Probably because a three dimensional object photographs better than a painting. Or maybe because I just thought these things interesting?
The lion made out of 50,000 welded nails worth $25,000.
The floating dancers.
A few silver life-size bodies twirled overhead, but didn’t show up too well against the sky.
This tent was full of pieces that look like the artist watched a Tim Burton movie marathon then woke up to create.
And there were lots of great things to eat.
Though my little artist was sad they were out of the boiled peanuts we found something he liked.
We went Friday and I felt like going on Saturday before we drove home.
The creativity bug energizes me.
Are you the Art Show type?
The floating dancers were there last year as well… glad you had such great weather this week – and I understand it’s really hard to fit everything in when we go “home”… ps the WP 10k is THIS Saturday, you missed by a week this year 🙂
I know Michelle. I really wish I could have landed there the weekend of the race. That is a great one. We had to leave a few pieces of furniture behind. I’ve actually considered going back next weekend so I could do the race. But I’ve also looked for the Run in the Pines weekend. Hope to see you at the start line sometime soon.