Fur In The Paint

Greetings from Kentucky
I have returned to the comforts of Iowa. But for the past 7 days I have been enjoying the sites and hospitality of Kentucky. I took both cameras but failed rather badly at taking loads of pics for the blog. I got a little swept up in all the horses and spent most of my time with the 35mm trailing around the barns.

A friend of mine, Carol Herden had booked a booth at Breyerfest to be held in the Kentucky Horse Park, but had misjudged the weekend and her usual help was unable to attend. So she asked if I would go. She bribed me with some booth space to sell prints and the freedom to go and watch all the equestrian events held at the park. I have never been to Kentucky or the horse park, so after about 15 minutes of deep introspective thought, I agreed.

For those of you who don’t know what Breyerfest is, I will talk about it in more detail in an upcoming post. But suffice it to say that it deals with little plastic horses that people collect. Breyer is a major manufacturer of this type of thing.

Churchill Downs
Yet another oh so flattering photo of me. I swear I am going to have a photo shoot just so I can post something that looks somewhat attractive.

Churchill Downs is the famous racetrack where the Kentucky Derby is run. Just so you know this is as much of it that I saw. We arrived after it had closed (only just) and so didn’t get to go in. Carol insisted she take a pic of me in front of the place, despite the fact that I had been on the road for 18 hours and was wearing the same clothes that I wore the previous day. (Hmmm. Long story that. The point is however, never, ever pack your luggage behind two tons of art product. So that you would need to unpack the whole freakin truck to get fresh clothes.)