the tough questions

first friday august

I, for one, was pretty glad that the Hound Dog Days of Summer wasn’t as accurate for the weather at First Friday this month. In fact, it was a pretty mild evening, and the weather made it perfect to get out and enjoy the galleries. The size of the event has only grown over the summer - I saw at least two live bands playing and I’m sure there were a couple more around. There were some residual hula hoops and chalk drawings, but it seemed like a lot of people found their own ways to break down.

I was expecting to see a lot more dogs around, given the theme, but I was only greeted by a couple small pups. Those dogs seemed to get a lot of love from kids and others alike. I barely got a clean photo of any of them, but this little guy was giving out puppy eyes for free in front of Anderson Creative Studio.

Arts in Stark spun the theme a bit so that the goal of the evening was to capture as many shots of Elvis as possible. I only saw one or two images floating around (though there were a few guys out that I could’ve sworn were impersonators), but I couldn’t pass up a shot of some nice chalk art on the corner.

After spending some time out in the galleries, I finished up the night out at Muggswigz with some friends. Pretty good for a cool summer evening.