1-19 Art Competition Exhibit

Cultural Activities Center in Temple Texas

We woke up to a windy chilly day. Larry had read in the paper that the Cultural Activity Center had a Art Competition event at the beginning of the month and the art was now on display and admission is free. We decided today would be a good day to go. Students entered their art pieces for $15 for the first piece and additional pieces were $5, the non-students entry was $25 and additional pieces were $10. The artists compete in different categories, which were: Mixed Media, Three Dimensional, Watercolor, Dry Media/Drawing, Pastels, Oil/Acrylic Painting, Photography and Pottery. When we entered into the center we began by walking through a magnificent display of Martha Dickson Allen art. Martha is a romantic realist who shows the richness of exotic cultures through her portraits and colorful market and street scenes of Latin America in her watercolors. Her art is gorgeous and full of life. After looking at her exhibit we walked through the Saulsbury Gallery where the art competition pieces were. We had a great time looking at the students art pieces. The students have a lot of talent. When we finished walking through this gallery we walked through the upstairs gallery and the other galleries in the building. The Cultural Activities Center is where we go to listen to concerts. While we were in town we stopped by our cable company, we don't have cable TV but they provide our internet service. Centro Vision has been bought out by Grande Communications and near the end of February they are going to be ready to switch us over to Grande. They have been upgrading all of the equipment and wiring in the area, last week we saw them put new wiring on the poles in our neighborhood. Grande does not have the same plans so we stopped in and selected their least expensive plan, it is almost twice as fast and cost less than we pay now, sounded good to us. Our last stop was Aldi where we bought a couple of pizzas.

One of Martha Dickson Allen portraits

Mixed Media display

One of the Three Dimensional winners

Some of the Watercolor paintings

Some of the winners in the Dry Media/Drawing category

Pastels Paintings in the competition

Some of the Oil/Acrylic Paintings

One of the pictures from the Photography category

Flo wondered off to the neighbor's house and Larry had to chase her down. He's worried that she's going to be hit by a car so he got her invisible collar working again. He told me we need to start putting the collar on her even though I really don't want to. I'm afraid that she's going to get shocked because she can't hear the beep before the shock. Larry trained her on the boundaries when we first moved in but I am afraid she won't remember them, I have not had the fence collar on her for a very long time. I guess it's better than her getting hit by a car. I worked out for an hour and half and then I took Flo for a walk around the neighborhood. By the time we got back home she was exhausted.

In the evening we watched Downton Abbey and the first episode of a new serious called Mercy Street on PBS through the ROKU. Mercy Street is a serious about a hospital during the Civil War. The first episode was introducing the main characters in the series. Afterward we streamed Austin City Limits. The two acts were Ryan Adams and Shakey Graves. Ryan Adams is a musician, songwriter-singer, producer, poet and painter. He sings rock, alternative country and folk rock. We liked his style of singing. Shakey Graves (Alejandro Rose-Garcia) is an Americana musician from Austin Texas. His music is cross between blues, country and rock and roll. When he performing by himself we liked him but when he's performing with his band not so much.