Ice Festival, Nothing to do with Masonry

This post is kind of a commercial for my home town. Here in Medina we have a park in the middle of the town square.   The park has a beautiful gazebo in the center.  The park is a bee hive of activity most of the year.   During the summer there are Friday night band concerts.   There are art shows and crafts shows several weekends during the summer.   One of the nicest festival is an ethnic diversity festival.  Several years ago the then police chief decided that the residences of Medina should have a ethnic mixer just to show the diversity in Medina.   It was a bigger success than he could have ever hoped for.  Now it is an annual affair.   Food and entertainment from the different ethnic groups that live here goes for the entire day.

Once gardens begin to produce,  there is a farmers market with fresh, locally grown produce.

In the winter it is a little harder to use the park but use it we do.   This weekend there is an ice craving festival.  As you can imagine ice craving is really weather dependant.   Yesterday was a beautiful sun shinny day with temperatures in the upper 20s to low 30s.   One would have thought it a great day for ice craving but they would have been wrong.   The bright sun turns the ice milky white and obscures most of the detail work.  It also weakens the ice.  

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Following are a few pictures of the many, many cravings.   The pineapple and the butterfly are examples of what I mean by the sun damaging the cravings.    I hope you enjoy the pictures.  Don't forget that clicking on them makes them bigger.