Plein Aire with the Art Buddies

Last Friday while we were having thunderstorms, Toby was trying to get info on the Byers Bike Bash, which could have been canceled due to the storms. He called one of the local bike shops that told him that the BBB would send out an email. Because we had changed Internet servers and were no longer with Hughes, we were not sure we would get the emails. It turns out that I am able to go to the HughesNet site and get to emails, which still come to the old address. This is great, but I don’t particularly want to keep going to Hughes to check my email. I found all sorts of emails from people whom I thought I had sent the new email address. If you are a person who emails me occasionally and have not made the switch, please do so. In the meantime, I will continue to check the Hughes address now and then.

Yesterday’s plein aire painting was wonderful. As usual, I had a great day with my painting buddies. We drove through the Wichita Wildlife Refuge and then over to Medicine Park for lunch. We took lots of photos for future paintings. Then we painted. We only had time to paint for about an hour, because we had done so much sightseeing. Lunch at the Riverside Cafe was a bit slow, but good. The day was perfect spring weather. Here is a photo of what I was painting. Here is my unfinished painting – as I said, we were only able to paint for an hour before we needed to pack up and head home (and make a few more shopping stops along the way).

Today Toby and I are headed to OK City to attend the Big 12 Conference baseball tournament. I am meeting Jo, blog buddy and fellow artist, and her husband at the UT game. I'm pretty psyched.