Monday, September 4, 2017

Minnesota State Fair 2017

Here are some photos from the great Minnesota get together, the Minnesota State Fair.

Getting going to start the day with the sunrise coming up by the Giant Slide:


The agricultural competitions are always fun to peek at.  Below, behold the majesty and pageantry of the Swine barn!


And the horse competitions:


Then it's a trip to the Horticulture building:


 The flower contests are always beautiful:




But the best photo of a flower I took was one outside of the Fine Arts Building.


Speaking of fine arts, their contest was impressive as always:











And the crop art is amazing to see.  






They even have a scarecrow competition.  The Putin with puppet Trump was especially scary!  


The Creative Arts was also strong.  Not sure exactly the difference with Fine Arts,  but still nice.



You run into a lot of people, like one of my favorites, MN-01 Representative Tim Walz!


But there are a lot of people to run into everywhere you go:


There there's the food!






Love me a Pronto Pup!  They had a strong alternative/college music presence at the Fair this year.  Hippo Campus played the night I was there, at the free stage!


Finally we had a new addition to the Fair this year, a huge Ferris Wheel. It was a nice touch, up on Machinery Hill.


But it was most beautiful at night:


And there you go.  The Fair ends today, as well as (symbolically) the summer.  Off to work with dreams of Pronto Pups running through my head...











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