Hi,

  All I've got to say is wow!  I really had a great time on March 1,2008 at the show. It really was a good time with lot's of people and fun. Man, I never thought that I would still have fun chasing balloons around , but dammit, I did.

Okay so you think I am nuts, but no we had a legit reason. We were drawing on them and calling them an Art object. Really it was just a great way to get a bunch of 20 - 50 somethings to play like little kids. I would still like to know who the lady with the fur coat and russian hat was. Never did get the chance to talk to her.

I met lots of people, photographers, schoolteachers, art admirers, and other artists. I had the good fortune of meeting Luke Yocum, otherwise known as the Amish Neo. A neo-imprssionist artist who is taking New York by storm. Heck he just lectured at Penn State the day before. Jonas Hair had just exposed me to a sample of the man's work earlier that evening. You can tell alot about a man when he's lit. Great guy. I also met a very playfull photographer named Mike Fitzgerald out of New York, good guy.

I had a long talk with a local phtographer who works for the stae at his day job as a clerk. He did an exquisit picture of the bottom of a vase. reminded you of a black and white colidescope.Cool.

But most of all I had fun with nmy wife at the show. She is not an art officianato, but I am working on changeing her mind.

Wade