Showing posts with label sundays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sundays. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Sundays in My City: The Puyallup Fair

This weekend, along with hoards of other people, we went to the Puyallup Fair. This fair has been around for eons (ok, not really eons, but decades, anyway) & is held twice a year in spring & in the fall. All the traditional fair type stuff can be found here, gardening, cooking, animals, food & rides. The theme this time was "Free Your Glee." Sorry, I don't get it, is it a reference to the show Glee (I love this show, by the way) & if so, why does this relate to a county fair? Was there a singing contest? I don't know. There were musical performances. Kid Rock was there (he's doing county fairs, now?) & we saw a brief part of some show where the entire group wore jumpsuits. The lead singer made reference to a 70's leisure suit he had in his closet, but from where I was standing he was born in the 70's, if he experienced the 70's at all. If he has a leisure suit in his closet, he must have bought it for the retro appeal !

Sillyville

Free Your Glee?

Gigantic Pumpkin

Scones: A fair tradition

Earthquake Burgers: These are 1 pound burgers!

Flo the Clown
The Fair Exit


I hope you enjoyed the glimpse at a local  tradition. Check out Sundays in My City on The Unknown Mami, for other local treats!

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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Sundays in My City: Pretty Flowers

Sunny Side Up: Shasta Daisies

Wall Flowers: Pansies



Blue Lupines

Just some pretty flowers for you to look at...

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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Sundays in My City: Roslyn, WA

More of my adventure into the state of Washington: Roslyn. Roslyn is probably most famous as the place (or one of the places) where "Northern Exposure" was filmed. Never heard of "Northern Exposure?" You should find some DVD copies or find it on line. It was an excellent TV series set in the wilds of Alaska (but filmed in Washington) & mainly about the towns many unusual inhabitants, (including the towns transplanted, indentured servant doctor) & their unusual relationships to each other.

Here's the Roslyn Cafe, where we ate lunch. Delicious, sophisticated food, not at all what you'd expect in a small town cafe. It was incredibly noisy & we sat by the window, at the  wrong time of day (the sun glared in), but neither marred the experience of the food! The tables had little copies of old town photos & there was a display of modern paintings on the walls.







 The Brick...a town bar & the scene of much of "Northern Exposure"


Roslyn was once a mining town...




This is the little history museum near the Roslyn Cafe...




More museum & related buildings













The day we were there they had a little farmer's market, where we got a free cookie & one of the vendors gave us apple cider bagels (delicious, but don't apparently rise as well as other flavors) with the purchase of some jalepeno bagels (I never got to eat one of these, my family ate them before I got to them). I even met seller ThriftStoreGlam, who makes little things she sells at the market & who sells vintage clothes in her Etsy shop. These days, Roslyn has become a destination on the way to or from Sturgis & is just a plain cute town to visit. All in all, it was a fun trip & then, we were on the road home:

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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Sundays in 'My' City

This week, I wanted to show you another of the fun Washington state towns that I visited on my little excursion to & from (to & fro? hither & yon?) Leavenworth, WA.

Cashmere, WA
Home of the Aplet & Cotlet factory
This is it, no really, this is the factory. My husband & son took the factory tour, complete with silly caps to cover your hair. The whole tour took less than 5 minutes. It was two rooms, that make all of the Aplets & Cotlets distributed around the world!







Railroad across from the factory...


















More railroad...











 The end of the tracks.
















It's a small town...There is a small downtown area, with kind of an old west feel. We ate lunch in a 50's style diner (that had delicious hand cut potato chips). This was in the same building as a huge antique mall. I got a great vintage slide box that opens on both sides & my husband bought a "Unibomber Cap." It, um. looks very warm? We had a fun side trip & I love the slide case! (The hat, not so much...) SAM


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Sunday, July 11, 2010

Sundays in My City pt 2

Some typical Washington moss...
















Cherries...
















This is across the street from It's Greek to Me (yummy Greek food) & used to be a barber shop, just a few years ago...












Currants...











Church, also across  the street from It's Greek to Me, can you tell where we ate?















More of the things that make Tacoma, Tacoma...

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