Watertown's Main Street is Kemp Avenue ... two lanes that go one way and west. It all started with the renovation of the Goss Opra House. Now it holds a great coffee place with wireless internet, a classy restaurant called Charley's, a place for traveling exhibits and art, and an incredible gift shop. We now have two new trollies that go from the Redlin Museum to Main Street/The Goss, and on to the Watertown Zoo.
The Birch Tree Gallery, where I show my photography, is on Kemp Avenue in Watertown. So I am getting reacquainted with Historic Uptown Watertown, South Dakota. The Mall on Highway 212 was the worst thing that could have happened to Kemp Avenue ... but it's no longer the place to be. Kemp Avenue is where it's at. Now Watertown Confectioners has opened across the street from the Birch Tree Gallery. Look out, Watertown Mall ... your days may be numbered.
The Watertown Festival of Arts will be held here on Saturday. I am a participant this year, showing for sale, a 20 piece collection of my photography at the Birchtree Gallery. Tomorrow there will be a section of their storefront windows devoted to my Biography, surrounded by additional photographs. The Gallery, owned by Al and Cheryl Wentzell, will represent me. It started with an invitation from my girlfriends, Abby and Mary, to take a stained glass class. Then I took a mosaic class. Cheryl began following my Blog, and soon after, the Wentzell's and I were talking about my photography. By then I knew that in addition to being stained glass masters, they were both fused glass artists, Al painted, and Cheryl made jewelry. The Wentzell's took me under their big loving artist wings ... we began working on my show for the Festival, and experimenting with dyenamic infusion, a process whereby photographs are transferred by heat to glass or tile. We are collaborating on some very unique and beautiful ideas right now. Birchtree Gallery/Northern Lights Stained Glass Studio is on Kemp Avenue in the heart of Historic Uptown Watertown. I love having made yet another step in the direction of settling in here. And I am thankful for this opportunity the Wentzell's have given me to share my photographs.
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I always give my attention to a US flag that's flying. It is just so beautiful. But that same flag, draping a soldier's coffin, is the saddest sight I know. Pray for peace.
I love the insides of Flowers. I think they are beautiful. They make me happy. And when my eyes move out from the center and on to the petals ... well ... they are beautiful too. The contrast between the inside and the petals is always amazing. As I have said before, God had a great imagination.
While I was away in Colorado the trees in the Shelter Belt leafed out. The Flowering Crab Apple Trees opened up too. They all said they missed me. I believe it.
Once the snow clears I love the contrast between what's in the fields and what's going on up above. The brown of last years corn compliments the blue gray of this fast moving cloud formation so nicely. Skies around our World at http://www.skyley.blogspot.com
The natural light here on The Prairie is very different from what I experienced in The South for so long. I'm not saying anything negative about The South's natural light, or The East's or West's for that matter. I'm just saying mine is softer ... and softer to me means a little prettier.
I took this Saturday evening while we walked our property. The sky had something totally different going on in each direction. I had been looking up the entire time we were out. Right before we went in I happened to look back at the Garage to see how the newly potted Geraniums were doing ... this beautiful Drive In Movie shadow was just starting to form.
Watertown's Main Street is Kemp Avenue ... two lanes that go one way and west. It all started with the renovation of the Goss Opra House. Now it holds a great coffee place with wireless internet, a classy restaurant called Charley's, a place for traveling exhibits and art, and an incredible gift shop. We now have two new trollies that go from the Redlin Museum to Main Street/The Goss, and on to the Watertown Zoo. 
