This is the first weekend of the Sawdust Winter Fantasy. Around noon today, I wandered down to the festival to see which artists might be there, and what arts or crafts I might want to see more. The decorations are much less lavish than they were this time last year, but this is the front entrance.
Inside the gate, there is a small petting zoo enclosure -- in the corner were two hens and a bunny -- there was also a goat in the enclosure, along with a number of children.
Because there were not very many people there, I was able to capture a couple of shots I've not been able to see before. First a superstructure on one of the booths.
And a clear shot of the waterwheel in the corner of the festival grounds.
Ooh -- and here's another windmill!
Poinsettias were placed around ponds and on railings.
Along with decorations on the trees.
On the way home I stopped in a parking lot -- a spot I've wanted to look at more closely than I could from a moving car. It displays a good example of parking lot art.
My real reason for stopping there, though, was the sandstone cave up the hill behind -- it looks as if the cave is somehow being carved out despite the lack of water (this is in an area where there were massive mudslides and flooding several years ago -- it is possible that the water then weakened the rock and it's just now crumbling).
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