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June 20, 2013

our third annual festival

Posted by Jennifer under CAA Carriage Festival, horses & driving, Lexington & KHP
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This year’s CAA Carriage Festival — a celebration of traditional turnouts, carriage driving, antique carriages and cars, and more — begins one week from tomorrow. Also tomorrow, I’ll be getting the electronic files for the show program ready to ship off to the printer. And so I’ve been going through the photos I took at last year’s Festival to look for images to illustrate the program, and at least one to feature on the cover.

If you’ve been following the blog for a while, or if you’ve scrolled back through (a lot of) previous posts, you may remember some of these, but I thought it would be fun to take a quick look back at last year’s event.

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If  you’ll be in the Lexington area next weekend, join us at the Kentucky Horse Park for our third annual CAA Carriage Festival! (Click here for the full schedule.)

 

May 1, 2013

… and a local stagecoach

Posted by Jennifer under history, Lexington & KHP
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And here’s another old photo of Lexington’s downtown …

This is the Lexington-and-Versailles stagecoach, in front of the stage office on Short Street (parallel to and one block north of Main Street, which we saw yesterday).

The building with the porch, to the left of the horses, now houses a fabulous Lexington restaurant called Table 310.

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April 30, 2013

a local (to me) street scene

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I had nearly forgotten that I’d found (large postcards of) these old photos at an antique store a while back, and that I wanted to share them here.

Both — yesterday’s and tomorrow’s — were taken here in Lexington more than a hundred years ago.

This first one isn’t dated, but it shows our downtown Main Street, where it’s crossed by Limestone. The big building at the corner — behind the row of trees and where all the vehicles are parked — is the Phoenix Hotel. This area is now a park, an apartment building, and the main branch of the Lexington Public Library.

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April 18, 2013

the calm before the storm

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By this time next week, the Rolex Kentucky Three-day Event will be underway here at the Horse Park.

For now, though, it’s mostly quiet around here …

These empty vendor tents will soon be full:

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The main trade fair area is in the KHP’s covered arena, so this now-empty area will soon be bustling with shoppers:

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The sponsors’ village sits quietly for now, awaiting its tenants:

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The Land Rovers are arriving and being lined up neatly in the main parking lot:

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And the cross-country course and jumps are being decorated by a small army of volunteers:

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April 16, 2013

the crabapple tree

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Spring has (finally) sprung here. And I  realized today, as I was admiring all the pretty spring flowers in our garden, and the suddenly green grass everywhere, and the many pink and white flowering trees, that I haven’t posted any photos of our springtime loveliness yet.

So here is a photo I took yesterday, of some blossoms on the crabapple tree outside my office window …

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