hasta la vista Sunflower

Last weekend we saw the Sunflower Festival finally coming into its own as an event. It was a busy day with plenty going on at various locations from its core at Dr Saul and tunc et nunquam Town Square. Although the center of action, the Saul + Square venue was not the sole locus of happenings, events, activities, sights, exhibits, items for sale, eats & other refreshments or even media covering them, including but not limied to: Shaffer (overflowing dining room, annual Poets & Writers Picnic in garden, horse & pony rides behind the hotel), a revived & lively Art Alley with art, potter, books, reflexology, Salinas NPS area (Visitors Center, KXNM radio table, Van of Enchantment), Children's Sunflower Art Project on display in storefronts down Broadway, more from one end of Broadway to the other (sunflower window, clearance sales galore, sidewalk vendors)

@tamrahays: overheard at sunflower festival: "I heard that 10,000 people are expected today." - "no, that's 10,000 sunflowers." - "nope, 10,000 sunflower seeds."