2013 NC State Fair

Wanted to get at least a little time tooling around the NC State Fair this week, so I headed out this morning for a couple of hours before the crowds turn up in force.  For a little while I thought it might rain, but the clouds parted and it became a beautiful day.   Mr. Simon's and I had a discussion about what fair weather is supposed to be.  "Well...there's fair weather...and then then's fair weather...two completely different things!...I do better when it's fair weather."  Mr. Simon's sells great  authentic rootbeer floats.  Huge ones for $5.00.  I was a little bloated this morning after having one at 10am.

NC State Fair Photography Competition

Back in 1985, I entered my first NC State Fair Photography competition.  I captured a first place blue ribbon for a photograph of the old mail boat out at Ocracoke.  I entered again the next couple of years, but photography was judged against fine art instead of separately, so I stopped entering.   Last year I joined the fray again and took a first place ribbon.  Feeling the need to support the fair competition again this year, I entered this image taken out at the Jim Hunt complex last year.   To my amazement it captured this years blue ribbon. Two years in a row.   As my art teacher will undoubtably say next week..."That ain't too shabby!"