We checked on the pictures we had submitted to the Durango Art Center for the juried Four Corners Commission art show and found that my "Shiprock in the Mists" had been accepted and hung (my first exhibited piece). Sandy's color-burst picture of a thistle bud was not hung; no accounting for tastes ... maybe the judge is a rancher!
Back up to Fort Lewis College to enter a photo each in the "Images of the Southwest" juried exhibit at the Center of Southwest Studies. These entries were a little farther afield. Sandy's was taken at Chaco last October, with a beautiful Pueblo Bonito wall framing a window view onto another wall, then the cliff top and then the blue sky. Mine was taken in September 2006 at Pipe Spring NM ... a sunset shot along the Vermillion Cliffs past the sandstone front of the West Cabin.
After a Mancos Mush planning meeting at Jean-Pierre's, we went back to receptions at the DAC and at the Open Shutter Gallery. Very different crowds (though with some cross-over)! The "Art of the Animal" show at Open Shutter is in connection with the Mush, though most of the pics were not sled dog-related. Interesting to us not only for the way the photographers viewed their subjects but also for framing and presentation. Sandy's "Here's lookin' at ya" picture of two donkeys was very prominently displayed among the works for the silent auction to benefit the Mush; those burros are SO cute!
It started to snow as we headed back for a meeting in Mancos and, as always, the blowing snow was worst around Montoya's ranch, west of Hesperus! Once again, we were happy to see that lighted angel in the darkness!
Add to that the fact that I rented the apartment and Scooby Doo survived the day without us ... 'twas a great day in Paradise. And this morning dawned bright and clear at 3 degrees. TV
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