Wandering aimlessly all about.....

Saturday was another day to go exploring to see what we could see....in the end we wandered over to Saluda, NC, then Tryon and back into SC at Landrum.  It turned out to be the peak of color a couple of weeks earlier than normal so we had lots of scenery to enjoy and many pictures to take.
This is a view of the Saluda Grade - "the steepest rail line in America" but it is no longer running any trains :-(.   Wayne took this picture late in the day and then "painted" it with oils.

It would have been exciting to have ridden this line and been able to climb the grade during peak colors!!

News and views

One of my photographs was accepted into the juried art show at Upstate Visual Arts. Making the cut turned out to be nerve racking, but now I'm in. Results of the judging are tonite. It will be interesting to see what kind of art wins. I feel very honored to have been selected, and no, I'm not just saying that.

We are going to be in three upcoming events - and maybe more. Sept 19 & 20 at the Riverside show outside of Commerce - details when I get them.

Oct 3 we will be in the Trillium art fair in Travelers Rest, SC

Oct 10 at the Downtown Wake Forest Autumn Arts Fair in Wake Forest, NC.

We will probably also enter at least 2 more juried shows this fall.

We have come so far in less than a year and find we are looking at things very differently than we did and using our photoshop and painting techniques more selectively.

Here is one of Wayne's most recent works. We were on an errand and came around a curve to see this beautiful tree standing alone in a farm yard. Light and sky were about perfect.