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It’s a great morning, perfect in fact, blue skies. We’re headed out just now for the fair, lot’s of people down there today, good music in the park and it looked like a sizable number of people were buying too. Most of the artists are returnees from last year (or the past 30 years in some cases) but there were a number of new artists. Two were particularly interesting: one a quilter who dyes her own fabric to do photo realistic quilts, from a distance they looked like a photo or maybe a painting. Then there was an indigo katazome artist who I had seen a year ago at the Mystic Art Association. She works mostly on cotton and had a multitude of table cloths, shoulder bags and purses in her booth. All very nice and apparently popular with the crowd.
Hopefully, Charlie will leave Mystic be, but the artists are understandably concerned as the current forecast is for winds up to 50mph late tonight and tomorrow morning. We’ll see, but at least today was beautiful. We especially enjoyed just laying in the park enjoying the live music.