Here are some images from my wonderful trek to the New York Sheep and Wool Festival near Rhinebeck, New York..........though I messed up badly. Larry's fancy camera has a 'manual' setting that I accidentally triggered, so virtually all of the photographs that I took indoors are out of focus. Here are some that are at least see-able. First is a shot of the fairgrounds with happy walkers/shoppers........and then there's the brilliant Lisa Joyce (Arizona) with her sister in two of the hats she makes from recycled felt pieces. Lisa makes gorgeous sheep's wool yarn, chunky, deeply satisfying to use as trims or textural elements. Thurd, I got a shot of Ann, one of our friends and clients, with whom I played phone tag for awhile at the fair. Then there's the talented woman who's making tapestry bags (I got four of them) with hand-crafted hardwood handles. And, finally, a shot of the entrances to a couple of the MANY buildings at the expo. The Sheep and Wool Festival is so vast, and spread over so many buildings, that it's easy to become disoriented. But.... it's also more fun than almost anything I can imagine.
The drive was long and mostly gorgeous. Pennsylvania along Interstates 80 and 84 is endless, but in mid-October, it's also unspeakably beautiful. It's as if a demented painter spilled colorful pots of paint all over the trees throughout the Allegheny National Forest and then into the Appalachians. As New York appeared, the colors continued....broken only by pine expanses. I didn't bother to photograph any of it. Some things can't be captured on film; you're always disappointed. Memory is a better archive. So I can't share what I saw -- except to say that, if you ever want to soothe the mind, drive east in mid-October in full sunlight -- or , better yet, in grayed or end-of-day sun, when the colors are even more vivid.
More later. I have to sit on a panel today at 4:00 and I'm unprepared. svb
Wow, thanks for the little shot of great orange tree. I was in Seattle & eastern Washington, and the leaves were turning...what deciduous leaves there were to turn, that is. Mostly conifers, and so mostly dark green. Oh, well...I can always hope. Try looking at the leaves on a wet, rainy "soft" day (as the Scots say)when the rain isn't so hard as to obscure the colors. Wow.
ReplyDeleteI must get myself out there one day -
ReplyDeleteand that weekend was spectacular for colour - makes for such a nice drive!