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most popular image

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Thank you to everyone who attended last weekend’s Holiday Extravaganza in Bailey. At the show, the red fox kits were the most popular images in my booth. I didn’t ask people to vote, but the images of the fox kits drew the most comments and purchases. Below is my top seller for the show. As the mother fox grooms, her baby’s expression seems to say ‘enough!’

My fox kit images were captured in late May and early June of 2007, thanks to near neighbors who called when the vixen and three kits emerged from under their deck.

What gets people talking in my booth? Here are some of the FAQs:

  • St. Elmo, a mountain ghost town – Where is that?
  • Hummingbirds  – How did you get these photos of hummingbirds?
  • Other Birds  – What kind of bird is that?
  • Lions Head – Is that Lone Rock?
  • Fox kits – How did you get so close?
  • General – What cameras do you use?  Is it digital? Photoshopped?

I drink lots of water at the shows because I have to do a lot of talking.

Now today, as I prepare for this weekend’s show, should I print a large number of the same images that sold last weekend? Not necessarily. My experience has been that the favorite image often changes from one show to the next.

This Saturday the show is in Conifer at the high school.

The Holiday Boutique and Silent Auction is run entirely by community volunteers each year (since 1977!) and with net proceeds from the jury and booth fees going to mountain area schools, volunteer fire and rescue departments, and other local nonprofits. Nearly 90 artisans participating in this event donate 10% of their gross sales and an auction item.

Conifer Newcomers and Neighbors Holiday Boutique 2008
November 8
9AM to 4PM
Conifer High School

(my booth is #95 in the cafetorium)

ghost truck

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This is one of the images (captured on a trip in 2007) I’m taking to this weekend’s show. I wonder if anyone will find the old Dodge as interesting as I did.  I was warned that a very large bull would not be happy with me “out there” photographing the truck, but the bull did not appear so I came home alive with the image.

I titled the print ‘back to nature’, but today’s date calls for a spookier name.

I won’t be waiting for the children (who never come) trick or treating at my house tonight. I’ll be setting up my display in the Canyon Room of the middle school in Bailey. If you are in the area this weekend, stop by and say hello.

Holiday Extravaganza  (I pronouce it “extraaavaganza”)
November 1 & 2
9 am to 4 pm
Fitzsimmons Middle School (South of Bailey on U.S. 285. Um, I think it’s actually west of Bailey. Anyway, if you are coming from southpark take 285 north and stop at the school before you get to Bailey. If you are coming from Denver, take 285 south and go through Bailey and find the school about 3 or so miles beyond. It’s easy to find, really!)

after the shows…

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hummingbird\'s tongue

Hummingbird’s tongue.

Two festivals a week apart have kept me busy. Thanks to everyone who participated in the Rhubarb Festival and Bailey Days this year.  It was a beautiful two days by the river in Bailey last weekend and one day fest at the firehouse the week before in Pine Grove.

It’s wildfire season. A wildfire is buring in an older burn area near Pine Valley. Lighting strikes start fires. The wind blows. Virga in the sky more than rain drops on the ground.

Pine pollen. It’s a green world with green windows and people driving green cars – even the gas guzzlers are “green” right now.

Too much talking (at the shows), too much pollen (everywhere!), my voice is dry like the weather.

We get a few raindrops splattering in the green dust some afternoons.

The western tanagers are here. We usually have a pair near our house this time of year. The male is so brightly colored it is possible to spot him immediately in the douglass firs. He is cautious and won’t come too close. He is seen most often with his mate somewhere near. She is yellow green and blends with new growth on the trees. I feel sorry for the male, too bright to hide.  

Columbines are blooming, yellow, blue, and purple.  Lots of other wildflowers blooming now, too. Wild geranium, penstemons, cinquefoils, blanket flowers, sedums, wild roses . . . too many to name them all.

Summer is here. I missed posting photographs of its arrival while busy with the shows. Soon, I’ll begin catching up by sorting through this month’s photographs to see if I have enough for a June “review” post. For now, I’m out photographing what’s left of June in consworld.