Highland Jazz & Blues Festival...

Is there anything that brings people together like food and music?!

revelling...

As a long time festival goer, I get really excited when it's Revel time. It means fried foods, independent artists, arts & crafts, live music, and italian ice. It also means autumn has arrived! This is my favorite time of year. Right about 5:30pm when the sun is at its most orange and sitting at a perfect angle in the sky, the air is crisp, and the trees are changing colors...this is it people. Evening walks, bike rides, light jackets and scarves...how could this not be the best time of the year!?

Another wonderful thing about the Revel is you will inevitably run into friends partaking in said fried food. Look at those funnel cakes!

This cajun pistol will blow your mind. {pun intended} We ran into one of Tison's high school friends, Jimmy Wooten, who invited us to hear his band at Chicky's Boom Boom Room after the revelling. No, it is not a strip joint like the name implies.

The Jimmy Wooten Trio killed it! I loved every song they played.

mudbug madness...

Memorial weekend turned out to be an outdoor extravaganza! I made a concerned effort to participate in activities that took place outside to enjoy the unofficial start of summer. The 28th Annual Mudbug Madness crawfish festival was held last week in the downtown Festival Plaza and provided quite the hullabaloo. Although the crawfish were small, we had a fun time! The bloomin' onion from Southern Concessions took the prize for vendor favorite at our table :)

More weekend activities to come...