We went somewhere pretty yesterday.  We woke up and hopped in the Volvo and drove to where my parents live, southwest to Denver Bot...

Lavender Festival

Sunday, July 21, 2019 , , ,

We went somewhere pretty yesterday. 

Lavender Festival

We woke up and hopped in the Volvo and drove to where my parents live, southwest to Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield. 

Lavender Festival

I'd heard they were having their Lavender Festival--sorry, one day only--and it sounded pretty and I love pretty things. We picked up Grandma Erickson on the way. 

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We stopped to smell the roses lavender. 

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It smelled of Provence.

Lavender Festival

I love fresh, real lavender 
and also lavender sodas

Lavender Festival

Lavender does well in Colorado--thanks to our 300 days of sun and dry climate--and so lavender and I are quite simpatico. 

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Do you know the one thing harder to photograph than kids? 

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Hummingbirds. 

Lavender Festival

While we've been to the Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield before, it's been to their corn maze/fall harvest festival, and that's on the other side of all this lavender business. So we had no idea there was so much more to this place. 

Lavender Festival

If you don't like getting lost in corn mazes, you can try their labyrinth garden instead. 

Lavender Festival

{Not to brag, but my kids are really sweet about taking posing for all my photos.}

{And when they aren't, I may or may not remind them how, I gave birth to you, so you can pose for a photograph for me.}

Lavender Festival

Lavender Festival

They have historical farm buildings to peek in, as well as a dye garden. 

Lavender Festival

I might do a painting of this:

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You can walk through the historic Hildebrand home. Here is a view of the pantry.

Lavender Festival

Lavender Festival

Anyhoo, the dye garden shows you how they can get so many beautiful color dyes from nature.

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The dye garden was one of my favorite parts. 

Lavender Festival

Lavender Festival

A carpenter bee palace:

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We are city folk, we think this was an ox.

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Despite being a lavender festival, it wouldn't be a Colorado summer without our famous Palisade peaches. {Sorry, Georgia, your peaches have nothing on ours. It's our little Western Slope secret.}
{Don't be salty 'cause we're juicier and sweeter than you.}

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There were a ton of food trucks. 
This was the prettiest one. 

Lavender Festival

Of course, we had to have ourselves the 
lavender lemonade. 

Lavender Festival

My kids posed as their best awkward-homeschooler-selves for a photo of our picnic in the shade. 

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Now here was my favorite part: the grass. Back when I did A Paris Street Market with my craft business, during the summer shows we would bake on the asphalt. How lovely to have this grass to shop booths on instead!

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It almost makes me want to start doing shows again. 

{Somewhere out there right now, my husband just had a heart palpitation.}

Lavender Festival

This was the prettiest, most Instagram-worthy festival I've been to yet. 
Feeling cute, might go back next year, idk.

Lavender Festival

Fact: Violet & I both have names of purple flowers. 

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Fact: We should have named Eisley 'Iris'.

Lavender Festival

There was a barn with art vendors and real music played by real musicians, and this trippy twig tree house to explore...

Lavender Festival

Lavender Festival

We cracked corn to take home to our chickens!

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{But no one cared.} 

Lavender Festival

Lavender Festival

I just love this photo of little Iris and her brother.

Lavender Festival

Anyway, I'm sorry you missed out. 
Make sure to go next year, my love. 

Lavender Festival

Cheers,
Heather

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