Orange you glad no one stole my car?

I got older over the weekend. 

Saturday, as I told y'all I was going to do, I went to Folk Fest.  And I saw my friend, Sam Granger.  I told y'all about him too.  A lot of folk artists are larger than life characters and absolutely tons of fun.  Here is Sam complete with his sock monkey hat, peace sign sunglasses, "Free Hugs" shirt, and his gold dancing shoes.  He gave away hundreds of free hugs over the weekend:

Sam likes to enjoy life.  I hope he sold a lot of art.  I bought one piece from him (to add to my collection of Sam G. art - I think I have 4 pieces now.  We did art trades on a couple of them and I bought a couple).  I also bought 4 other pieces from some other artists.  This is because I'm broke and said I was only going to look and would not buy any art.  And because I have about 300 paintings of my own stacked up in my home studio that I don't know what to do with.

I'm in the middle of a big decision in the art side of my life, and I met a fabulous artist at the show on Saturday.  I've wanted to meet her for years and we've been friends on Facebook for a while and she was at the show Saturday (not selling, just walking around and enjoying).  I had a great conversation with her and she said she would love to meet me at her friend's studio one weekend and paint together.  Y'all, I am flabbergasted and excited and honored and shocked that she wants to do that with me.  Mostly excited though.  If it works out, it will be such a huge thing and a great opportunity for me.  Fingers crossed!

Do you know what happens when one gets old?  One forgets kind of important stuff.  I've mentioned at least once or twice (ha) that I live in the 'hood.  I've had an artsy thing stolen from my front fence already.  My neighbor had a bike stolen.  It was chained to a spindle on her front porch so the thief simply broke the spindle out of her porch and took it with the bike.  Another neighbor has had someone try to kick in their door.  In other words, it's not the safest place to leave valuables out.  Saturday morning when I got ready to leave for Folk Fest, I discovered I had slept with my back door unlocked all night and had never turned on my security alarm.  Great, huh?  Then when I got home, I unloaded my car, went inside, chilled out all evening, slept all night, got up Sunday, did some stuff around my house, then walked over to my neighbors' house for a party all afternoon, then came home and got ready to drive out to my dad's for dinner.  And that's when I discovered I had never closed my garage door or locked my car from when I got home from Folk Fest 24 hours before.  Awesome.  So far I haven't noticed anything missing (other than my brain, obviously) and I'm as shocked as anyone.

Oh well.  Let's move on to Music Monday Contest and I'm sorry I'm posting this so late on Monday, but today was our monthly billing deadline and I was insanely busy. 

Because I went to Folk Fest and bought art, and talked to artists, and thought about the art portion of my life an awful lot this weekend, I still have art on the brain tonight too.

The song(s) you submit this week must contain a color in the title.  Y'all, this is easy.  I can think of about 10 songs with "red" in the title right off the bat.  I can't wait to see what you come up with! I'm going to go ahead and disqualify Red, Red, Wine since it just won last week though.   Since I'm posting so late tonight and I have to mail out more overnight packages tomorrow (ugh), I will give y'all until tomorrow night at least and maybe until Wednesday before I pick winners. 

Have fun!