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Kite shop morro bay ca7/10/2023 Peggy said they were so excited to see the Kite Festival was coming back in 2022 and were looking forward to it again this year. In 2019, the last time they had the full Kite Festival before the pandemic shut everything down, David said he went down to the beach and took a bunch of photos of the colorful flying things and pieced them together for his watercolor work. The original watercolor that David painted has become the best selling of his fine art, giclee (printed on canvas), offerings. Peggy adds that it was a combination of that and a “celebration of the fact that we’re here, we’re happy and excited” for the future. Over the decades it has been a post office and dry goods store and in the 21st Century it’s been an art gallery, first for John Ramos and now Rogers. The building has long been known as the “Anderson Building,” according to the Morro Bay Historical Society’s walking tour of Downtown Morro Bay. “We are about to sign a new 5-year lease,” Davis says, “and we consider ourselves permanent parts of the community, so we wanted to make a positive contribution.”Īnd fine art is what they do best, so it made sense to do a mural. The inspiration, David says, was to do something in tandem with Visit Morro Bay (a non-profit association for tourism promotions), and the kite festival and to celebrate a milestone for their business. Rogers Fine Art Gallery (407 Morro Bay Blvd.) for the past five years. That’s where Rogers has operated the David J. Rogers and his wife Peggy recently sat down with an Estero Bay News reporter to talk about the mural, which is over 50-feet long and about 15’ tall, and located at the corner of Monterey Avenue and Morro Bay Boulevard. (There probably is!).Morro Bay’s newest public artwork pays tribute to the annual kite festival at Morro Rock and is a whimsical scene of colorful fun recreating the most popular watercolor by artist David J. If you would like to see or participate in a kite festival for yourself, here is the American Kitefliers Association Kite Festival calendar to see if there is one scheduled near you. Now that’s what I call the perfect afternoon! My little one found the perfect position for viewing kites, covered with sand, sunglasses on, lying back and relaxing. We had an Angry Birds kite of our own that did quite well and only cost us 99 cents (That’s it way up in the sky in the picture below). There were also Master kite fliers who exhibited amazing control over their kites and even had them choreographed to music. There were kites with wings that flapped and kites that seemed to not move at all. ….even a giant Gecko kite (at least I think it was a Gecko). There were boat kites and bird kites, triangular kites and circular kites, small kites and large kites…. I know! right? Fun and relaxing are sometimes hard to come by at the same time, but with kites of all types and sizes floating above the beach, it made it ok to just sit back and enjoy watching them as they shifted back and forth above us, channeling the wind from head to tail, like this giant yellow octopus did (The octopus was over 90 feet long and maybe 20 feet wide). We didn’t really know what to expect when we stopped by the Morro Bay, Ca., Kite Festival last weekend, but what we found was a wind-fed wonderland of creative kites and kite fliers that delighted the kids and made for a surprisingly fun and relaxing day.
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