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Down Home Days in Mason - 15 September 2012

 

15 September 2012 - Down Home Days in Mason

I always enjoy Down Home Days in Mason (as well as the Spring version Spring Fling in May). I rode my TerraTrike over on Saturday morning and parked it in front of the Bestsellers book store. Just across the street is the memorial shown below where I started my trip around the block to check out this year's edition of Down Home Days.

I decided to keep it simple this year and use a single lens, the wide angle zoom.
All photos were taken with an Olympus PEN E-PL2 camera with Olympus 9-18 lens.

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2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
I always buy a red poppy from the Mason branch of the American Legion stationed in front of the war memorial. The path in front of the memorial contains bricks with individual's names inscribed along with pertinent information about their service. Below is a close-up of the inscription on the main memorial.
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
Fading World was performing when I passed by the entertainment area. I liked their wide range of music. They even played the Beer Barrel Polka (they called it the Root Beer Polka).
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
I met this enterprising fellow selling his invention the "baggit brakkit". It is a frame that hangs on the side of a cabinet door and holds a standard grocery store plastic bag, turning it into an "instant trash can". The literature he gave me referenced his web site at http://gadgetsbyhanna.com/.
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
This young lady spinning yarn caught my eye, since my wife and daughter have done some spinning in the past. My daughter's attention turned to dyeing the yarn and the roving used to spin yarn (see her open house). The second photo shows what this lady did with some of her spun yarn, knitting some very cute baby caps.
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
Farmer's Market
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
2012 Down Home Days Festival, Mason, Michigan (USA), Olympus PEN E-PL2, Olympus 9-18 lens
All the activities did not prevent the weekly Farmers Market from taking place. The final photo shows one of my favorite tables at the Farmers Market, the Girl Scout goodies table! Cookies, brownies, miniature loaves of various types and possibly other tasty items. I can never resist! And the money supports a good cause (so it's all right to buy all those delicious items).

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