Headed out to an event we’ve never been to before. Shades of Carmichael features about 80 hand-decorated market umbrellas, which will then be auctioned off as a fundraiser for the park and for the Sacramento Fine Arts Center. Joey has painted an umbrella for the event, and has also booked a table as a “vender” (sic), which means we’ll be at the mercy of the weather. We’ll take our portable pop-up shade, and the weather report says to expect warm but not hot temperatures, so we should be okay.
Here’s one of the focal points from the umbrella Joey painted:
Fingers crossed!
Event follow-up: Had a fine time. Weather was great, if a bit too breezy for our display materials. Lunch from the gyro truck on-site. Met some fun people, sold a painting (an owl based on the same Northern Saw-Whet owl seen above) and had some good arts talks. Only thing that would have made it better would have been more people in attendance.