When was the last time you attended a small-town festival?...for me, it was last weekend's annual Harvest Fest in Coupeville, Washington...it had been so long I had forgotten how much fun these events are...
This one took place during the final weekend of Coupeville Farmer's Market for the 2013 year...a market that has been in continuous operation for 35 seasons...last year at this festival the community forked over more than $10,000 to help feed hungry families and children in need...I'm hoping Gifts from the Heart food bank made even more money this year...
The festivities included relay races...participants were teams of people from local community groups...adorned in appealing costumes and emboldened with goofy team names, they arrived early to hit up the crowd for donations to the food bank...
The relay race was a lot of fun to watch...and it would have been even more fun to photograph if I could have wangled my way through the crowd...it consisted of food-related challenges...like taking a "no hands" bite out of an apple hanging from a string...lassoing a cow (no, not a real cow...a charmingly painted plywood version)...a three-legged race using a burlap food sack...and, of course, the requisite food toss at a few locals who had generously volunteered to be hit in the face...
I had a great time...and you'll notice that some of my images caught the back of people's heads...or peeked through the shoulders of people in the crowd...oh well, sometimes I'm having way to much fun to care about that...
