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While attending the Los Gatos Plein Air Festival in June I was not feeling well.

On the third day with 6 paintings under my belt and after a beautiful lunch given by the organizers of the event, I set up my easel around the corner on University St and painted from 2 pm to 7 pm .This was to be my grand finale painting 8x17.  Conditions were tough, a howling hot 90 degree wind that had me holding my umbrella the entire time and I chose a nostalgic complicated row of houses with July 4th flags flying as my subject. 

At 7 pm one tired artist packed up, placing my painting against the side of my car and drove off.

Realizing at 9 pm it was missing I returned to my spot to find nothing there. :(

I contacted the organizers who put out a neighbor hood alert and at 1 am succumbed to the fact it was gone and to paint some more. UGH.

I began at  5 am with a streetscape and at 10 am tired of architecture I sought trees and shady spot to sit and found Park Plaza full of magnificent redwood trees and kids playing in a fountain. It was a restorative 3 hrs of painting on a lawn, at 2 pm I hurried home to my hosts house to frame my 8 paintings.

2 ladies called to say they had seen the missing watercolor at 8:30 pm and one had placed it against a wall. That was the last we saw of it .

Luck had it, at the Gala that night the painting of the Plaza Park was awarded Peoples Choice Award .

Now this painting would never have existed if it were not for me leaving the painting in the street.

How's that for serendipity?