94 days to the Heart of Florida Paint Out
09/01/08 10:41
We
are on the fast track to gather sponsors, small towns
and trail sites for the Heart of Florida Scenic
Trail. This year's Paintout is the kick off
celebration for the rollout of the inaugural trail!
You could say, we've really done it to ourselves this time.
Its truly mind blowing that we'll be able to pull this off...but somehow it will all come together.
The Heart of Florida Scenic Trail Guide and CD is our way of creating a portrait of this treasured place we all love so well. It will be a full color book with maps and things to see and do along the way...between Gainesville and Ocala. Getting travelers off the interstates, onto our scenic back roads and into the small towns to enjoy the local haunts, stay in locally run places, eat the regional cuisine, shop the local stores...you get the idea.
Its like, when we go somewhere new; what do we want? That's exactly what we're creating for visitors.
Just to be even cooler, we're also making an accompanying CD with area stories and music. You'll just pop the CD into the car's player and hit the trail.
We'll be giving the trail guide away at the PaintOut...where the artists will be painting in actual trail sites.
Its going to be amazing!
Evinston's palm studded pastures, the old frontier era buildings and century farmhouses, the hay rides to Orange Lake where the palm forest slides right into the lake and wildlife is so abundant. The Victorian village of McIntosh with its Live Oak framed roads, spanish moss, sweet old houses...straight out of the 1800's, and then the Orange Lake Overlook-OLO...with its breathtaking views a top the hill from the vintage Huff Citrus Co., now the WindMill Gallery. Its Painters' Heaven.
Sponsorships and sites have to be gathered by the end of the month!
Yikes, wish us luck!
You could say, we've really done it to ourselves this time.
Its truly mind blowing that we'll be able to pull this off...but somehow it will all come together.
The Heart of Florida Scenic Trail Guide and CD is our way of creating a portrait of this treasured place we all love so well. It will be a full color book with maps and things to see and do along the way...between Gainesville and Ocala. Getting travelers off the interstates, onto our scenic back roads and into the small towns to enjoy the local haunts, stay in locally run places, eat the regional cuisine, shop the local stores...you get the idea.
Its like, when we go somewhere new; what do we want? That's exactly what we're creating for visitors.
Just to be even cooler, we're also making an accompanying CD with area stories and music. You'll just pop the CD into the car's player and hit the trail.
We'll be giving the trail guide away at the PaintOut...where the artists will be painting in actual trail sites.
Its going to be amazing!
Evinston's palm studded pastures, the old frontier era buildings and century farmhouses, the hay rides to Orange Lake where the palm forest slides right into the lake and wildlife is so abundant. The Victorian village of McIntosh with its Live Oak framed roads, spanish moss, sweet old houses...straight out of the 1800's, and then the Orange Lake Overlook-OLO...with its breathtaking views a top the hill from the vintage Huff Citrus Co., now the WindMill Gallery. Its Painters' Heaven.
Sponsorships and sites have to be gathered by the end of the month!
Yikes, wish us luck!