Art in Bloom at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts

I've been a docent at various gardens in the past, but this year I volunteered for different jobs.

I'll be at the gallery level offering beverages to early visitors this year (see the tub of cool wine bottles on the far right).

The Gala evening the first chance to view these wonderful displays of the pairing of a floral arrangement after a painting or sculpture.

Some friends I know are enjoying their cocktails on the deck outside the gallery.

Maggie puts lots of elements together to help create a memorable event.

From last year's party. Notice each connoisseur holding their wine glass!

This is of course a fund-raiser for the Center for the Arts...so attendees are those who really understand how important the arts in all forms are to the community!

Photos courtesy of Center for the Arts on Facebook.

And my next volunteer position will be on Saturday to welcome visitors to the show.

Art in Bloom Garden Tour House #6

 

Art in Bloom garden tour, house number 6 (as posted in When I Was 69)

Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons? -Arundhati Roy, author (b. 24 Nov 1961)

 This was the last house on our Garden Tour for 2022!

We had a wonderful parking place right in front of the home!

A very big flower bed!

Interesting old trees.

Art in Bloom Garden Number 5

 

Art in Bloom garden tour, House number 5 (also posted in When I Was 69)

 The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. -Madeleine L'Engle, writer (29 Nov 1918-2007)

Pretty house on Cotton St, across from a garden tour house, but not in the tour

See the frog? For some reason he has a flower on his back.

Lonely little Dahlias.

Exuberant flowers being held in check!

And then you turn a corner of the house to see all this...

This is the winter garden, with many evergreens that stay green all year long.

Bluebirds love this shape of house. Those are tomato plants above the straw. I forgot to ask why they used that mulch for them.

One of the owners (Suzanne I think) gave good descriptions and stories about their garden to Helen.

I was drawn to a cup of water with lime floating in it and a chair to rest...

See the steep slope on the left and the more gradual one on the right. Someone told me when I was halfway down the left slope that I could have used the other one. By my eyes they had both looked equal from standing at the top. Strange.

It took me a very long time to find the fox in the painted door. He's not only hidden, but faded away.

Sharing this post over at Living in Black Mountain also.

Art in Bloom garden tour, house number 4 as posted in 'When I Was 69'

 

Art in Bloom garden tour, house number 4

Here Ellen checks the view the artist is painting, and my friend Helen looks on!

We had to guess what these little fruits were, but when asked what the leaves looked like, I said peaches. That was the clue, they are nectarines, my favorite fruit! How great that they can grow here as well as California!

I chose to walk up the steps to the raised deck rather than follow the stepping stones to the back yard.

Again a lot of gravel. And another building too!

A second artist working on the other side of the house!

As we left there were three flowers in red to enjoy...

Check out the floral art that was in the gallery over on my blog  Alchemy of Clay

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. -Nicolas Boileau-Despr, poet and critic (1 Nov 1636-1711)