So here’s the same shot.

The first one is what it looked like out there.
The second one is the same shot with the camera flash on.
Lighting up the mist in the air and showing how thick
the water was in the air this morning.

Along the shore, the road was scattered with horseshoe crabs and a few puffed fish. Looks like they might have come in with the tide, and didn’t quite make it back when the water receded. Most of them are flipped on their backs. A few still looked like they had a little life left in them… so I flipped them over and watched them slowly crawl towards the water.

This morning was very dark & foggy along the the Delaware coast. I pedaled through the morning mist to Port Mahon. Hoping for a glimmer of a sunrise… instead I just got gray skies… and wet.

Might be the same sun & the same sunrise, but it looks completely different out here over the Delaware Bay instead of Lake Michigan?!!!

It was quite humid & sweaty this morning… the clouded sunrise made it a wonderful ride!

Unfortunately, the clouds rolled in and covered the sky… and brought more humidity with ’em.

After my first day working with the “glitter gig”  in Dover today, I decided to go for a quick sunset run. Not far. Just from the hotel, around the speedway, back to the Festival entrance and back. The sunset was beautiful… and if you look close you can see part of Dover International Speedway in the bottom left corner.

For anyone around the TV tonight, my friends Kristen & Andy will be on tonight’s episode of “Kitchen Crashers.” Kristen is a metalsmith-turned-Mom who got a complete kitchen make-over courtesy of the DIY Channel. Can’t wait to see the transformation… and watch for her adorable kids too. They’re the cuties who made terra cotta mugs in my studio a few weeks ago!

Special thanks to everyone who came out to the Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival this past weekend. We had incredible weather both days surrounded by a lot of talent. It was great to see so many of my loyal customers… and to meet so many Facebook Fans. So much fun to finally put a face with the “Face”book!!!

One of the best parts of art fairs is “trading” with your talented art fair friends. Lucky me came home with two new pieces by My Talented Friend” Cory McCrory!!! Love the colors, the textures, the whimsy… and you know I LOVE WHIMSY!!!

And speaking of colors, textures & whimsy…

Although I was startled awake this morning with wind gusting through my bedroom window, the weather in Hinsdale looks beautiful now and we’re ready to kick-off Day Two!!! Hoping to find a good home for this set of four turquoise bowls today!!!

Congratulations to my creatively-crazy-ceramic friend Cory McCrory who won “1st Place 3D Art” today at the Hinsdale Fine Arts Festival. Her work is incredible, and so is she! Mark your calendar for August 30th & 31st when we will be playing together at “Art In The Garden.” Details to come…