Marigold Festival, Pekin Illinois

The Marigold Festival will be held here this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  I will not be attending this year.  It always draws a massive crowd and I don’t want to be in a large crowd for awhile.  Pekin is known as the Marigold Capital of the World.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekin,_Illinois

http://www.pekinchamber.com/marigoldfestival.html

 

Miss Marigold, 2013

http://www.pekinchamber.com/marigoldpageant.html

 

Have a wonderful day.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

More Festival Pictures…

 

Cindy Williams from the old Laverne and Shirley show signing autographs…

Schoop, Schoop, Hula Hoop Hoops…My kids had hula hoops when they were small.

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Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Feeling better…

but not my old self.  I am moving around and have a load of laundry in the dryer. I slept for 10 hours last night.

I did go with my daughter to the festival yesterday afternoon.  My legs were so wobbly that I had to sit on one of the benches by the Lagoon while my daughter checked the booths all out.  There were dozens and dozens of them.  I did get some nice pictures of the water.

Just to give you an idea of what the crowd was like. 

I hope you all have a great week.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Pekin Illinois 2012 Marigold Festival

http://www.pekinchamber.com/MarigoldFestival.htm

http://marigoldfestival.blogspot.com/

“The Marigold Festival was started in 1973 to honor one of Pekin's "favorite sons", Senator Everett Dirksen.  While in the United States Congress, Dirksen tried to have the marigold named as the national floral emblem. In support of Dirksen, the community began growing marigolds. While unsuccessful in the national flower contest, Dirksen's hometown of Pekin became known as the "Marigold Capital of the World".    ^{[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekin,_Illinois}

Hannah Finley, Miss Marigold 2012

I have mentioned before that the city I live in now is known as the Marigold Capital of the World.   The Marigold Festival begins this Friday and ends on Sunday.

Thunderstorms all around here this morning.  The weather radio first woke me up this morning at 4 AM with a severe thunderstorm warning.

Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

It’s such a pretty world today..

look at the sunshine.  It is a glorious day for the start of the Marigold Festival here.  As I have noted before, Pekin is the Marigold Capitol of the world.  There all kinds of activities scheduled for today and tomorrow beginning with the parade this morning.  Dozens of tents selling all kinds of crafts and items are set up in the park next to the lagoon.



This is a photo I took of one of the craft tents last year.  Sadly my Cardinals have dropped the ball (pun intended) this year.  http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/standings  They are in second place behind the Milwaukee Brewers.  For my Wisconsin friends, I wish the Brewers well!!

I am busy cooking in the kitchen this morning.  My kids are coming over tomorrow and I am fixing chicken and stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans and peach pie.  And then I will be so stuffed I will have to lie down and take a nap.

So, I need to cut this short and get back to the kitchen.  I hope you all have a peaceful weekend.  Stay safe and be happy!!

  Beth

Tuesday, all day long…

and I am stuck here waiting to see if management comes to check out my back door and the hallway.  Of course I have been waiting since August 25 and no one has shown up yet.  I did call and remind them yesterday so I will have to stick around here this morning to see if anyone shows up.  I am not holding my breath though.
Sunday afternoon at the Marigold Festival was nice.  There were so many booths we couldn’t check them out.  We had to park some distance away and walk to the park.  After a couple of hours I was pooped and I had to beg my daughter to bring me home.  I did manage to take a few pictures and get a gift for my sister which I hope fits.

This is a shot of the lagoon which is at the park where the festival was held.  That is the Miller Senior Citizen’s Building in the background. 


And even though my Cardinals are not doing so great now, this was my favorite booth at the festival.  If I still had my own home I would have purchased this.

There were so many tents/booths that we couldn’t look at them all.  I would have loved one of those pictures.  Lots and lots of Halloween stuff there.

Just to give you a general idea.  There were over 300 booths/tents there.

Sweatshirts of all kinds to be found, ranging in price from $10 to $50.  The ones I found that I liked were not in my size.

Another picture of the lagoon.  There is a walkway around the lagoon and many people go there every day to walk for exercise.  In fact, after all of that walking my daughter and I did in the afternoon, she and my SIL went out there in the evening and walked several times around the lagoon for exercise.  I don’t know how this came to be called a lagoon but that is what the local folks call it.
It was a very nice afternoon.  I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Beth

Marigold Capital of the World…

This weekend begins the start of the Marigold Festival 2010.  This will be my first year to be living here while the festival is taking place.  I plan to attend some of the activities on Sunday after church.  Probably not on Saturday as I will have visitors here, unless of course they want to attend some of the events.  Pekin is the Marigold Capital of the World.
This picture of marigolds is courtesy of Here I am Carrie.  Thank you Carrie. Please visit her blog spot.  She has many awesome photos.
A beautiful young lady by the name of Jordan Davis has been crowned Miss Marigold 2010.  Her picture is below.



My street was oiled and graveled or whatever you call it this afternoon.  Below is a picture of the action.  I hope it is dry in the morning as I need to make a grocery store run.


I  spoke to my friends Anne and Bill today.  Bill was Jim’s best friend.  He has been undergoing treatment for cancer and has not responded well.  Please remember Bill in your thoughts and prayers.  Anne’s sister is also in the final stages of cancer.  My heart goes out to these two old friends of mine.
I hope you all have a great weekend.
Beth