Art, food, music, and animals - yesterday afternoon we went to the New Mexico State Fair, held in downtown Albuquerque. As with all fairs it featured a midway and lots of cheesy stuff to buy. I always find it interesting to see what the new popular novelties are - this year it seemed to be Dr. Seuss style hats in bright colors and patterns and wax or paper roses. Beyond the standard fair food of bbq, turkey legs, and fried stuff, there were tacos, Indian fry bread and churros. I actually had some really good fish tacos made by a stand whose home base is in Santa Fe. It's called California Pastrami, and their pastrami sandwiches are also great!
They have different buildings for the different exhibits. We stuck mainly with art passing through the Indian Arts, Hispanic Arts, Fine Arts and Creative Arts buildings. In all the buildings except Creative Arts all the art is actually for sale. Added incentive for artists to enter the competitions?
In the evening we headed indoors for the rodeo and a country music concert by Luke Bryan. The rodeo moved right along and at the end featured a wonderful tribute to the rodeo horses. The lights dimmed and the announcer said he wanted to introduce a family who had been participating in the rodeo for at least 4 generations. Out came the great-grandmother, a 30 year old white horse who pranced beautifully around the ring. She was followed by her daughter and granddaughter, also white horses, and finally great-grandaughter, a dark brown foal. 3 of the generations are or have been bucking broncos in the rodeo. Maybe it was all propaganda for the rodeo industry, but it was very moving.
Luke Bryan - what a hunk! Good singer too. Turns out he co-wrote the turnip greens song - one of my current favorites in my very limited knowledge of country music.
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