LAKESIDE LAVENDER FESTIVAL 2012

EVERY YEAR LAKESIDE LAVENDER IN NAMPA HAS A WEEKEND LONG FESTIVAL WHERE YOU CAN SELF CUT YOUR OWN LAVENDER, ATTEND NUMEROUS CLASSES OR JUST LISTEN TO MUSIC AND ENJOY THE SMELL.
 

 

 

 

TESS GOES EVERY YEAR AND FOR THE SECOND YEAR I HAVE DECIDED TO TAG ALONG. ALTHOUGHT THIS YEAR I BROUGHT MY CAMRA WITH INTENTION TO FIND SOME GOOD SHOTS. SHE WAS PHOTOGRAPHING A FAMILY PORTRAIT SECTION BEFORE WE HAD OUR OWN FUN.

 

 

 

THE FIELDS WHERE BUZZING WITH BEES

YEP TESS DOING HER THING

AND AS ALWAYS NEVER AN ADVENTURE WITH OUT ONE OF THESE LITTLE GUYS

 

THE NEIGHBORING FIELD PLANTED WITH SOON TO BE READY TO HARVEST GRAIN

 

AND SO IT BEGINS...

HEY PRETTY LADY

FIRST PICKED HANDFUL.

SMELLS SO GOOOD

 

IM PRETTY SURE WE GOT A LITTLE CRAZY AND PICK TONS OF LAVENDER

 

ONCE WE HAVE ALL THAT WE WANT, WE SIT DOWN AND ORGANIZE YOUR BUNDLES

 

THEN WE WONDER AROUND AND TAKE PICTURES OF ALL THE INTERESTING DECOR

 

AND MAKE OUR OWN 

 

AS ALWAYS US GIRLS HAD A WONDERFUL TIME IN THE SUN PICKING LAVENDER. DEFINITLY DOING THIS AGAIN NEXT YEAR.

 

 

 



4TH OF JULY

 

THIS YEAR I WAS ON MY OWN FOR THE 4TH OF JULY AND I HAVE TO SAY IT WASN'T HALF BAD.

 

AS TRADITION I WENT TO MELBA WITH MY PARENTS TO WATCH THE YEARLY PARADE AND THEN OFF TO YARD SALE. BUT ONCE NIGHT FELL THEY WENT TO BED AND THE DOG AND I WHERE ON OUR OWN.

FROM MY FRONT YEAR I CAN SEE ALL AROUND AND MY NEIGHBORS BUT ON A PRETTY GOOD SHOW.  

 

 

 

MY PARTNER IN CRIME SKEETER

EMMETT CHERRY FESTIVAL 2012

I HAD MENTIONED EMMETT'S ANNUAL CHERRY FESTIVAL EARLIER IN THE YEAR AND JEFF WAS DETERMINED TO NOT MISS THIS ADVENTURE. SO JEFF, KRISTY,BRENDA (JEFF'S MOM), JOSH AND MYSELF ALL HEADED OUT TO EMMETT.

 

WE STARTED OUR ADVENTURE OFF WITH SOME MUCH ENTERTAINING YARD SALEING. THEN IT WAS OFF IN SEARCH FOR A GOOD CHERRY ORCHARD. WE ENDED UP GOING TO AN ORCHARD JUST OUTSIDE OF TOWN. I HAD BEEN HERE BEFORE AND NEW THE DRILL...PARK OUT BUT THE CANAL, GRAB OUR BOXES, AND CROSS THE BRIDGE TO ACRES AND ACRES OF CHERRIES.

THE DAMON'S CROSSING THE BRIDGE

 

ONCE INSIDE YOU COULD SELF-PICK AS MANY CHERRIES AS YOU WANTED.

 



JEFF STARED OUT BY TAKING PICTURES

AND PICTURES...OF KRISTY

 



PRETTY SURE SHE FELT LIKE THERE WAS PAPARAZZI

 

 

 

THEN THE PICKING BEGAN

JEFF EVEN PICKED THE TREE BRANCHES

JOSH AND I IN THE GROVES OF CHERRIES

THE TREES WHERE LOADED

AND EVEN HAD BUTT CHEEK CHERRIES

JEFF EMPTYING HIS BOX OF CHERRIES IN THE THE ORCHARDS BUCKETS

SINCE HE JUST PICKED EVERYTHING HE SAW...HE SOON REALIZED THAT NOW ALL THE CHERRIES LOOKED GOOD

 

 

SINCE MOST PEOPLE COULD REACH THE LOWER BRANCHES ALL THE BIG CHERRIES WHERE UP TOP...CAUSING US TO PULL DOWN THE BRANCH AND PICK LIKE CRAZY...THIS TOOK A 4 MAN TEAM EFFORT

EVEN BIRDS LOVE CHERRIES

JUST WOULDN'T BE AN ADVENTURE WITHOUT A SELF-PORTRAIT

JOSH LOOKING FOR THE GOOD ONES

KRISTY WAS HAVING A GOOD TIME AND DECIDED TO HAVE A SMALL CHERRY FIGHT...

JOSH LOST...

OFF IN SEARCH FOR BETTER TREES

 

THEY LOOKED MORE LIKE GRAPES THEN CHERRIES

NEWLY WEDS OFF ON A STROLL

BRENDA SEEMED TO BE ENJOYING HERSELF...I'M PRETTY SURE SHE WAS JUST WAITING FOR THE PIE

THE GROUP ALL CHERRIED OUT

BEAUTIFUL EMMETT VALLEY

 

ONCE WE HAD PICK ALL 7LBS OF CHERRIES WE HAD JUST ENOUGH TIME TO MAKE IT TO THE PARADE.

 

SINCE IT IS JUST A SMALL TOWN EVENT MOST OF THE FLOATS AND CARS WHERE FROM THE LOCALS.

 

 

 

WITH CHERRY STAINED FINGERS AND SUN BURNT CHEEKS THE DAY WAS COMING TO AN END AND WE DECIDED TO SLIT WAYS AND HEAD HOME.

 

THANKS JEFF, KRISTY, AND BRENDA FOR A GOOFY FUN FILLED ADVENTURE!!