–Wistaria Festival, 2012

We are looking forward to the 2012 Wistaria Festival in Sierra Madre on Sunday, March 25!   The downtown festival will go from 9am-5pm.

There will be more than 150 craft and food vendors, live entertainment, and kids’ attractions, plus local merchants will be open for business too.

The festival will be spread across the downtown area of Sierra Madre, radiating west and north from the intersection of Baldwin Avenue and Sierra Madre Boulevard.

For those interested in seeing the vine, the viewing times are from 9am – 4pm with tickets available for purchase at WistariaTickets.com.

Tracy and I will be showing our handmade ceramic tile with a group of local artists sponsored by “The Friends of the Arts” in Sierra Madre.  We will be a festival within a festival…sort of.  Our group will be on the main boulevard in the tree-covered parking lot of the old City Hall building located between 55 and 71 West Sierra Madre Boulevard.

You may have to peek your head over a street vendor’s awning to see us along the sidewalk, but we will be there (with bells on, as they say).

If you happen to remember last year’s Wistaria Festival. you’ll recall that we had torrential downpours with rains so heavy that the local authorities were concerned about flooding endangering the bus-trips, tootling up and down the hill to see the vine.  We remember it well, because we set up our “shop-in-a-tent” with the “Friends” on Montecito Avenue and hoped for cheerful visitors to drop by to see our tile.  With water-logged socks, we passed the time under our shelter for several hours, chatted and cavorted with the other artists braving the weather, then finally packed it all up when the police informed us that the festival had been cancelled.

All in all, we had fun.  We met lots of lovely people, shared a few laughs under leaky awnings, and discovered some wonderful local artwork.  It truly was a memorable adventure.

I have to admit it though, we’re hoping for dryer weather this year.

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Stay tuned for more info about our next Spring event  as part of  The Creative Arts Group, Garden Tour to be held on Sunday, April 22.