A bunch us went to the Florida Renaissance Festival over the weekend. It’s in Deerfield Beach for eight weekends from February through March. This is their 33rd year.
It’s a trip in time back to the 16th century. Over 100 artisans sell their wares, there is a lot of food and entertainment, too.
Glass blowers, horse jousting, face painting, the marketplace and lots of shows throughout are amazing and always fun. There’s a beer crawl and pub sing, too. We ate and drank ourselves through the park.
Tents are all spread throughout the area and you really fell like you are in another time and place.
Along with the usual fair food – turkey legs, ice cream, gyros, etc., they even had pickle pizza, which I’m sure is a new thing but it was delicious!
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Went with friends to the Beaux Arts Festival this past weekend, held on the University of Miami campus. It’s the beginning of the arts festival season in Miami, if you don’t count Art Basel, which is at the beginning of December. I missed Basel this year, I was in New York.
The Miami Beach Art Deco Festival was this past weekend, too, which I usually never miss, but I didn’t attend that this year, either.
I’m just a tire kicker – a friend called me that yesterday at Beaux Arts, when I approached his art booth. He sells beautiful photographs he takes.
I’m not sure why I don’t buy a lot of art. I guess it started when I covered the news, which was for 15 years – I was too busy trying to “get the story,” that I didn’t shop around for art. But I don’t really have much wall space where I live, it’s mostly windows.
I do buy sculptures and things like that at times, but not much wall art.
Since I stopped editing the daily news, people think I left town. When I was doing the news, I was at everything every day. It was too much really, but it was my job – morning, noon and night, I was there getting the story and photos. Now I don’t do much in town.
Now when people see me, they say, “You’re back!” And I have to tell them I never left. So, there was a lot of that this weekend. I end up talking to some people and my friends who I arrive with scatter, and they end up talking to people they run into, and it goes like that.
A couple of weeks ago there was a parade in town. We all started out together and by the end, we were in different parts of the village hanging out with others watching the parade from our usual/favorite spots.
We mostly eat our way through these festivals, it’s almost like a food festival with art for many of us.
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