In no particular order

1. The diversity of more than 50 artists on display for three days, at more than 19 studios spread throughout North Kitsap — some in places you might never have known existed.

2. Gas prices are down.

3. Laurie Lewis and Joan Peter, the locally renowned neon art ladies who have been a favorite stop on the tour for the past three years.

Again, they’ll be demonstrating their intriguing process of making neon signs and even letting tour-goers try their hand at making small ornaments. Plus they’ve got a new place this year — a high-ceilinged warehouse of a studio space just off of Bond Road in Kingston — bigger and more accessible than their former studio.

Which means they’ll have more area for hands-on activity and more space to display their work, including their new, uber-rad, neon-enhanced old-school album covers.

4. Indianola-based sculptor Brian Berman — an artist who’s been a part of Art in the Woods since its inception — was recently selected as a part of an American delegation of 12 artists exhibiting work at The Louvre in Paris.

“Genesis” — the glass sculpture which is headed to The Louvre in December — will be on display at Berman’s home gallery during this year’s Art in the Woods.

His stone and glass sculptures are created in the ideals of peace and humanity, which can sometimes be hard to find in a world ravaged by war and economic turmoil. But Berman says he finds peace, or at least the reminder of it, in nature.

“To tune into nature and just to watch the change in the leaves, I find peace in that,” he said.

5. Which leads to one final point — even in absence of all this art, a fall drive through the secluded, wooded reaches of North Kitsap is one of the most beautiful things you could do with one of your days this weekend.

For more information, including a map and artist information, visit the Cultural Arts Foundation Northwest, the organization which puts on the Art in the Woods tour each year, at www.cafnw.org.