Showing posts with label festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label festival. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

lilac festival 2008.

after work, my beau and i went to the lilac festival. the festival takes place on about 20 acres of rolling hills in highland park. there are over 500 DIFFERENT varieties of lilacs planted which makes the entire park and surrounding areas smell absolutely LOVELY. during the bloom season - i drive through the park with all the windows down and you can smell them for MILES. you can see the rest of our pics, including the blooming onion, here.

yes, there are three of me - click and see for yourself!

Sunday, July 15, 2007

cornhill.



Today I went to the Corn Hill Arts Festival with some friends. Corn Hill is a historic neighborhood in Rochester which has some of the best architecture in it's old residential homes. The Arts festival was actually started back in the late 60s as a means for the Corn Hill residents to preserve the architecture of the neighborhood by raising money bringing public awareness to the area. It now draws over 200,000 people each year. It's my fave festival of all, well above Clothesline and Park Ave.

Coming off my patriotic vacation, I got Lucy a new American flag collar. I also came home with some cute glass mushrooms to adorn my garden. Those were my only purchases other than food, of course!

Friday, June 29, 2007

taste of Rochester.


Tonight we went to a Taste of Rochester. The music was good, however I noted not from Rochester. (boo) Some good eats, but we had to pass on food vendors like Uno's and Papa John's. I'm sure we could have come up with more Rochester focused eateries than them.

Lots of foodies were out, gobblin up goodies - so was 'festival guy'. He is this shirtless dude who dances at all the local rochester festivals. He was dancing so fast he should be called 'blurry festival guy'. I didn't know he is already famous, I took a short video of him and when I got home I saw him already on You Tube.

I passed on the garbage plate (for once) and stuck to the fried dough. I had will power of steel, because I also went home without having a chocolate almond cone from Abbott's. Then again, there's always tomorrorow.....