Friday, July 24, 2015

Farmer's Market

On Thursday evenings, 5:30 to 8:30, there's a farmer's market in downtown Grand Junction.  We've been in the area nearly 2 weeks but hadn't toured downtown or gone out to dinner until last night.  We started our outing with a dim sum platter at a Chinese restaurant, preceded, in my case, with a cup of hot and sour soup; delicious chow, lousy service.



We strolled through the farmer's market after dinner, 
admiring the many neat sculptures along the way.
  
It was 94 F degrees last night so we didn't dawdle much and I didn't bother noting
 the names of the sculptures - nor the artists' names, nor the asking price. 



This piece, with all the detail and various shapes, must have taken years to complete.
Trumbo*, a prolific screenwriter (Exodus, Spartacus, many more) who won 2 Oscars, 
hailed from Grand Junction, liked to write in the bathtub.


I love 'junk' sculpture!


Ribbit!
This chubby fellow, obviously a prince, probably gets lots of kisses.  
Didn't get one from Trish though - which, I assume, indicates she's not seeking 
an upgrade from her current prince


Right rear: beautiful buffalo sculpture, chrome I think.

Center: drumming/dancing/martial arts group gave impressive performance. 

Front:  Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!  I'm sure that guy felt enormously relieved when he finally 
straightened up.  We didn't hang around to find out, though, having just eaten dinner. 

*Trumbo bio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo






3 comments:

  1. I was waiting for the pictures of fresh fruits and vegetables from the Farmer's Market. Maybe these are artsy farmers.
    I am enjoying your travelogue.

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  2. Oh, I just realized, it's the artsy photographer.

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  3. Fruit pix can be taken at Safeway, Albertson's, Fred Meyer. Sculptures, not so much.

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