Saturday morning the annual art and balloon fest kicked off the "art in the park" with a ribbon-cutting at 9:30. Soon after that, Latham Park was filled with would-be shoppers admiring tent after tent of magnificent artwork. This year the art portion of the festival celebrated 37 successful years, while the balloon portion has been an ever-growing success for the last 22 years.

Pictures by Nila Smith

Jan Schumacher admires a small piece of art at one of the vendor tents.

This couple admires huge canvas pieces done by photo artist Harrison Phillips.

Paul Adams plays the pan flute, demonstrating the music on the CDs he is selling.

These wooden balloons were a very popular attraction.
 

"We only came 'cause our mom made us!"

 "Hmmm, what have we here?"
 

"Now this is what I call art!"
 

Don Bode of Bode's Welding stands with his metal art display .

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