Celebrating Summer

It all has to be packed in so few months in northwest Iowa! Weddings, family reunions, backyard barbecues, bicycle riding, and of course the small town celebrations. Never have we had a greater Rolfe Greater Days than this the 150th birthday celebration of the town of Rolfe. It has been buzzing this summer as residents and town leaders prepare for the culmination of 2 years of planning and working. Weeds have been pulled, houses painted, lawns mowed, bushes trimmed! Plans have been in the works for the bacon fest, wine fest, parade, rock climbing wall, lunches, dinners, dances, cemetery walk and home tour! And hats off to the town for a great weekend that was only made better by moderate temperatures, cool breezes, and over-cast skies making for great pictures and tolerable weather for a 5K walk/run. Here are a few of my favorite shots of some  parade viewers from my vantage point of my camera shooting out the sun roof of a car.

Festive and fun as Rolfe Greater Days  was, though, it didn't have the diversity of the Storm Lake July 4th celebration with the awesome food vendors displaying ethnic foods we mid-westerners and rural E-owans cannot even pronounce.  How blessed Storm Lake is to have the multiculturalism of the immigrant population to color their community and their celebrations!