Lexington BBQ Festival

          This past Saturday was the 29th annual BBQ festival in Lexington, NC, which is only 30 minutes or so  away from Greensboro.  So Vlad and I decided to venture over and check it out.  I had been once before several years ago but this year's seemed bigger than I remembered.
           The streets of uptown Lexington were stacked with vendors side by side, selling everything from decorated coolers to homemade BBQ sauce.  Face painters filled the streets with kids who had vivid faces of pumpkins and tiger stripes.  Rodney Adkins and Dustin Lynch were just two of the artists who took the stage, playing so the entire festival could hear!
          The food cart menus listed everything imaginable....deep fried.  With more variety than the fair, there was deep fried bacon, deep fried butter, and deep fried cheesecake.  Not including the usual funnel cakes, blooming onions, and the general food that is known for its deep fried qualities.  Of course, how could I forget to mention the BBQ stands!  Hot sandwiches or trays filled to the brim with a combination of sliced BBQ and red slaw, paired with a side of homemade curly fries for a southern treat only found in Lexington.  It's events like these that attract a more than interesting crowd, that reminds me just how southern North Carolina really is.

This year's gigantic sandcastle design

Look who we found!

The Davidson County Beekeeper's Association Booth Display

The Candy Factory

          The Candy Factory, which had a line to get in, is such a fun place to explore!  It's a time machine selling retro candy that can be hard to find now.  It's vintage decor and knick knacks create an atmosphere of times past and it becomes a candy playground with barrels of licorice pieces and cinnamon swirls, walls of jelly bean jars, and windows of chocolate fudge displays. I could have stayed for hours taking pictures, but with it so crowded and out of respect for others waiting to get in, I only got a few!

Fairies in the Garden

          Today I was given a little magic in my garden.  I recently brought from home my old fairy post that I used to put in all my plants when I was little.  It really must be about twelve years old from when my seventh birthday party was elegantly planned by my mother in a fairy theme.  I put it in one of my cucumber containers and a few days later this is what I woke up to...


          As legend goes, centuries ago, the sudden appearance of a circular pattern of mushrooms in people's soil had them believing that fairy rings were in the making. The English believed that fairy rings were where fairies came to dance and celebrate, the mushrooms of the rings were used as stools for the fairies to recuperate during the evenings festivities. Some believe that building their home in an area that had fairy rings would bring good luck to the family that settled there. Some believed that the fairy ring was the spot where fairies had chosen to bury their treasure, one catch, you needed a fairy to obtain the treasure. When dew formed on the outer area of grass, young maidens would use this moisture in love potions or as a remedy for complexion problems.

       I seemed to have welcomed fairies with my old garden post in this container!  And theres not a single mushroom in any of pot.  So dance and sing, and celebrate life!