Love in a bottle...

It was rainy today so I didn't make it down to the venue until 2:30. Thankfully the trees survived a storm just fine and are looking as beautiful as ever. I kept intending to grab a bite to eat, but the sun came out and I couldn't pull myself away. I thought to myself: "I have finally found something I like better than lunch!" I added caps to the tree we are building on-site so that tomorrow it will be ready for passers by to add the bottles the Grand Rapids elementary school students made.

Below is a little video clip from today. It stops short since I was interrupted before I could mention this pretty bottle that spells out 'love.' It was among a big bag of gorgeous bottles painted for me by a group of special needs students ages 18-26. They come to visit me Wednesday.

I was interviewed again for next year's ArtPrize video and the picture below was in yesterday's newspaper on the second page!

Today the man who lives in a downtown shelter (who offered to help me when my trees fell over) stopped by to underline what I was saying to some people admiring the trees. "This is the best display" he said enthusiastically. When the visitors left he asked if I had some cards for him to hand out and off he went to try to garner some votes for me.