We attended the Minnesota State Fair yesterday. We look forward to this event every year because there is something so comforting about what you can expect from this event: Families enjoying time with each other, every-kind-of-food-on-a-stick,music, juried art & craft shows, the animal barns complete with the biggest boar and a nursing sow, roosters crowing, proud farm kids showing their prized animals, a cow “mooing” contest, crop art, recycled garbage art, fish ponds, eco-information buildings…all under a clear blue sky. Ah!
Two words that bring such happiness
Sky Ride across the fairgrounds
A pair of people who wished they could have voted for Al
A sweet diner
Beautiful jars of honey
...and jellies
Crop art that made my day
For more detailed photos of some of the political crop art see this link:
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/blog/mary-turck/seed-art-michele-bachmann-and-state-fair
Superhero in the midway
This brought back memories....!
Prize Boar
Cow cuddling time
Proud moments
A wall of seed corn bags
Garbage found in MN lakes transformed into a fish sculpture
On our way out we spotted this booth and it made me think about a book I just finished entitled, Middlesex. A tough but good read about people who fit outside the defined norms in our culture. It made me wonder about the people who work there and their lives.