Regatta Dispatches: Atoms and art

What a beautiful Regatta.

I empathize with the windsurfers, mind you. Here they show up at one of the windiest lakes in the world, and Lake Okabena is calm as a mill pond. I'm embarrassed on its behalf, really.

At the same time, the sun is out and the breeze is perfect, and Atomic Flea is playing on the main stage, so for all the people who attend the festival for the music and the visiting, it just couldn't be any better.

Most of the windsurfers know the wind here is variable, though, and a lot of them bring alternate means of amusement: bikes, running shoes, kayaks, canoes and the newfangled stand up paddleboards, which they can use to zip all over the lake when there's no wind at all. Some of them just hang out and listen to the music that serves as a major draw to the festival.

I've been wandering all over taking video clips and chatting with people, taking notes for a Monday Regatta story.

If you happen to see me hanging out in the Globe tent, or wandering with the video camera, you'll probably notice that my hands are speckled with green and blue. That's from participating in the public art project. I was the oldest person at the painting table, so I chatted with the younger folks while I carefully dribbled paint all over a bit of material which will eventually surround a giant fish's mouth in a mural.

Had I known I was going to paint, I probably would have had fewer cups of coffee. As it was my hands were pretty shaky, so I'm not exactly sure if I was doing the fish mural any great favors. It will end up at the YMCA and every time I see it, I'm sure I'll think: Why couldn't I have made that line just a little straighter?

I think too much about these things.

For a while, we were out of coffee at the Globe tent, but someone brought us some more. Of course I can't resist, but this time I went for decaf. I'm on my third application of sunscreen and seem to be acquiring either a suntan or a sunburn. It's impossible to tell this early on, but I've been lightly crisped at several Regattas without realizing it until it was too late.

If I look like a boiled lobster tomorrow, you'll know why.

The atmosphere has moved into the mellow stage. Tons of people are just hanging out at the beach, eating and chatting with neighbors, family and friends. If you haven't been able to make it today, there's still time.

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