Plein Air Day

After a long hiatus, got outside today.  A local group, the Blue Ridge Fine Arts Guild is preparing for a show next year.  It's about the new crops, livestock, and farmers reinventing agriculture in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina.  The show's title is "New Pioneers of the Blue Ridge: the Renaissance of the Family Farm".  Today we had our first outing at Mountain Farm which cultivates several breeds of goats and lavender.  Their store sells soaps, lavender teas, goat cheese.

There were more than a dozen painters and photographers at work.

Here's a small pastel sketch, before the wind forced the umbrellas closed.