… otherwise known in knitting and spinning circles as ‘Rhinebeck’ (no pun intended)

Saturday, Oct 18…7:30 sunrise…

9:30 a.m. arrival at Rhinebeck… already a jagillion cars there…

 

and people…

even though it was mostly cloudy and even spritzed a few times the foliage as usual was beautiful…

these friendly looking folk caught my eye…

they were in front of the museum which I had never been in …  the exhibits included old milk wagons, baby carriages, wash tubs, and a man making caned seats…

 

there’s more to the sheep and wool festival than livestock and yarn…there’s a lot of other things to be looked at, admired and coveted..  for years I denied myself the small, orange, felted pumpkins… and then 2 years ago I got one… and then last year another one… and this year a third one….

but they’re not the only thing I had my eye on… there were these baskets too… my daughter had one, friends had them, almost every third person walking around Rhinebeck had them… they were great to put stashes of wool in, or food, or a small animal even… so this year my first stop… after coffee… was a basket…

here’s my treasures from 2014 Rhinebeck.. 🙂

the sky on the way home at 4:30 was just as beautiful as the morning sky was…