The Spencer Fair Art Exhibit

     After arriving home from work yesterday, I was off  to the Spencer Fair to submit my three pieces of art work for the exhibition.  I was so excited.  I lovingly and carefully checked the glass for smears, the frames for dust and then carefully wrapped them in cloth and off I went!  As I passed the fairgrounds, I felt a thrill as I saw the ferries wheel and the carousel set up, bringing back so many memories of fairs gone by.
      In the exhibit hall I needed to obtain my number which is needed to claim my artwork back at the end, then I went off to the table to write my labels for each piece.  I was so excited, I was all thumbs!  Next to me was a man who brought his photographs to show and he was doing this process for the first time.  I glanced at his work, and saw he did beautiful close up shots of his wife's garden and there was this huge white spider on a flower!  The hair stood up on the top of my head and I got goose bumps all over!  What a picture!
     I then brought them to the tables where my work was placed last year, and I only saw one other painting.  Realizing there was one more hour to submit art, I thought, where are the artists??  Have they all gone professional? I saw there was big response to photographs, they had large plastic bins filled with photos, all sorted by categories.  I walked away, looking back at my art work hanging up, waiting to be judged, wanting to be loved.  It was an empty feeling leaving them behind, kind of like when you drop off you child at school for the very first time and you walk away leaving them.  Wish me luck!  Please feel free to check the Spencer Fair website to the right in this blog and see what we do here.