at the encouragement of friends, we drove about an hour to a wonderful art festival…the pictures only capture a bit of the wonderful color…we have to remember the sounds…the kids’ favorites were “and…big and…man and…i do it and” (sand…big sand…man sand…i do it sand), “watching jamie do juggling and rope walking” (a truly wonderful performance…jamie adkins is worth seeing again!), “the car with dinosaurs on it” (i am inspired to turn our festiva into an art car…).

but something happened on our way to the car that trumped all those things…a truck was selling something in the parking lot…we said no, but then talked on our way to the car, drove back around and bought this.

everyone is thrilled.