It's Fair Time already....

We love the fair.  For years we participated through 4-H in various sewing, cooking, crocheting, quilting and animal projects but this year we took a break.  But this morning, when we were eating breakfast, everybody was thinking up things they could enter in open class.  We are big time fair supporters and we firmly believe in entering something....anything, just to do our share to help fill up the displays and make the fair more exciting.  The above eggs were laid by our young, free-range Ancona ducks.  The kids hustled to gather some to enter in the fair.

 
Eden gathered a bucket of bright colored flowers and whipped up this bit of lovliness to enter in the fair.  It's a bridal bouquet.

 Genoah quickly followed suit and created a bridal bouquet herself.  She really digs the yarrows.
 We were asked to create a presentation bouquet for the "Fairest of The Fair"'.  As I walked through the garden gathering the flowers, I kept my eye out for anything white, purple and silver.  So in this bucket we have asiatic lilies, bachelor buttons, larkspur, salpiglossis (that's the one on the far left that looks like a stained glass window), ammi, agastache, phlox, gooseneck loosestrife, silver tip wheat, asparagus fern and I'm sure more. 

 Here Eden is creating the design in the shop.  (Sorry about that rusty old freezer, but it doubles as a great work table.)

And viola.....a perfect masterpiece of specialty-cuts grown locally.  Congratulations to the new "Fairest of the Fair"  we hope you enjoy your reign as it is surely well deserved.  See you all at the Fair!