Little Piece of Heaven

About 45 minutes north of Raleigh is a little town called Hillsborough. This quaint little town in the country is also a hotbed of liberal arts and cool people! I had the extreme pleasure of spending the day there last weekend (actually 2, but who's counting) with my good friend Terri and her wife, Patty! :)

We had SO much fun together! After a little while spent cooing over their many dogs and cats, we went to 'town' and had lunch at the new whole foods type grocery store. Lunch was hasty because we didn't want to miss the hand made puppet parade. :)

This parade was simply the cutest thing I've seen in a long time!!! There were people on stilts with bird costumes, little kids with fish on sticks (a school of fish), Chinese dragon type snake costumes, green man of the woods, and many more creatures of the Eno river present. There was also lots of drum, whistle, rattle, and other musical instruments to be heard along the way. All together it made a cacophony that was truly something to behold! I'd highly recommend checking it out if you hear of it coming to your area, or get a chance to head over to Hillsborough this time next year! :)

After the parade we Patty and Terri took me back to their place and let me turn a few pieces of wood! :) Patty is a wonderful artist and makes absolutely beautiful bowls, platters, ornaments, and such out of knotty, otherwise useless hunks of old trees!

Terri, in turn has a thing for chainsaws and is quite adept at carving up and rough turning the wood for her wife! Together, they make quite a team and it was SUCH an honor to be allowed to take part in making such beautiful artwork with them!