Indiana State Fair August 3, 2018

Indiana State Fair August 3, 2018

With the "L" Family

This summer, Dd and I were invited down Indiana to have a visit with our friends, the "L" family and to go to the Indiana State Fair!  I've posted a few pictures of my favorite things about the fair to share and for me to remember.

The Pioneer Village area is my favorite section.

It is always fun seeing what the carvers are working on each year.

This man is carving this piece of wood into the shape of a ROOSTER!

I hope I live long enough to get a chance to try my hand at making these pieces of art out of wool.  I love seeing this each year.

For the first time since I've gone to the fair they actually had a real Big Top with an incredible CIRCUS.  It was so great I stopped taking pictures to just soak it all in!  

Just look at the expressions on the kids faces!

The always informative DNR building

The Indiana Beekeepers Association

The 4H Building with all the people's produce competing for the blue ribbon

Can you believe those cabbage heads?!?!!!!

Sunflower heads that are enormous

Even though Dh couldn't come with us, Dd got a Lemon Shake-Up like he would have!

I treated myself to my annual Elephant Ear...oh my!

We saw LOTS of critters---these llama's are the token photo of the endless animals we saw...though it wasn't a chicken day sadly.

Heather showed me a little store full of wool products and fun merchandise that we had never seen before!  We must have walked by this store endless times over the years and never noticed it.  So cute, SO expensive!

Of course, sharing these memories with my daughter is what it is all about---

and sharing it with the "L" family, good friends are such a blessing!!!

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Indianapolis Museum of Art August 1, 2018

Indianapolis Museum of Art 

August 1, 2018

with the "L" Family

Heather's eldest, R, was babysitting four little girls while we were visiting them.  She had the idea to meet us at the IMA for a picnic and visit to the grounds.  

All five "L" kids were able to come!

There was a very fun sculpture exhibit at the park--here you can see the red plastic snail sculpture above.

In this field, there was around a dozen variously colored snails.

These are plastic wolves

The Meerkats were so cute!  I really liked them a lot!

Heather and I both love taking photo's---these are some beautiful Surprise Lillies that we both admired.

Plastic frogs! and real Lilly pads

My favorite highlight was seeing the WRENS!  They had babies in their nest boxes--there were two full nest boxes.  The second highlight was this wonderful tree (see below).

I was standing under the umbrella from the tree canopy as I took these photo's.  It was a beautiful tree; reminded me of some I saw like this in Hyde Park in London.

Andrew really helped his sister out a lot by caring for the youngest child she was babysitting.  The four girls were a lot of fun to our already big group.

We had SUCH a lovely time!!!  

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