This year the fair was celebrating 100 years of the "butter cow", a life-size sculpture in the shape of a cow done each year in butter.
(I know, right?...)
This theme ran throughout the fair, in sand, on little statuettes,
and in sculptures made from canned vegetables.
[okay..]
I'd much rather look at the real vegetables.
And there are plenty of great specimens to see around here.
Not to mention to purchase. Farmers' Markets are everywhere now - even in the cafeteria at my workplace! But there's nothing like the
atmosphere of a fair, watching people of all sorts stroll by while you fill your face with food. Pork chop on a stick topped my favorites list for the second year. mmmm...
The radio and TV stations of course broadcast remote from the fair, and the weather guy from channel 13 was there doing his forecast.
And even though the fair is apolitical in nature, politics was still not far from people's minds. You could cast your vote for your favorite candidate by dropping a kernel of corn in a mason jar.
The fair-to-date totals looked pretty good for my guy. :)
But post-politics, there was great music ahead!
The opening act was not there, since he apparently got mugged AND hit by a taxicab while in NYC. Weird.
So PJ Morton, a keyboardist for Maroon 5 opened with a retro-funk act. Then came Maroon 5 with that great front man Adam Levine.
They put on a great show - he has lots of energy, but does not particularly connect with the audience.
Train, on the other hand, has a front man who really knows how to mix it up with the crowd. And, they did a broad variety of styles - very versatile and entertaining.
On the way out of the parking lot, the fireworks were going off. It was such a nice night, I opened the sun roof to get a good view. Sweet.
The fair was more than fair. It was great.
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