Each March I get hooked into watching the Academy Awards. I'm so impressed with that huge room of talent and their ability to remember thousands of script lines. People -there are days when I'm hard pressed to remember what I ate for breakfast!

February brings the announcement of which movies, actors, producers and the like are singled out. The participant always says what an honor it is "just to be nominated". I thought that was false modesty until I experienced being juried into a national show. That mental high knowing  "Till the Cows Come Home" would be included in the Kansas Watercolor Society National Exibition this fall had me doing a dance for days. Even though it wasn't going to include my purchase of a Vera Wang dress for the a trip down a red carpet, I was still pretty pumped just to be choosen.

Today, UPS delivered the painting back to me and I smiled. No, it didn't receive any blue ribbons or gold plated  Oscar-like statue to accompany it home but I'm still smiling. It REALLY WAS an honor to "just to be nominated".  And now I'd like to thank the Academy.....