Garden? Why, yes I'd love to!

Firstly, I've been on another cultural excursion. Props to Jacob for reminding me of this event.

The center house in Seattle annually holds a Spirit of West Africa Festival. I headed out (post garden shopping) to it this last Saturday. They have many musical performances and other presentations throughout the five hours that it lasts.

One of the first musical performances I saw was a man from Gambia (I think...am 95.7% sure) playing the 21 string harp exclusive to West Africa, the Kora.

see here for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kora_(instrument)

The Kora is traditionally passed down through the family. This man spoke of how his father had taught him and passed the instrument to him. Cool!

After this man played I noticed a fashion show on the schedule board and accordingly let out my squeals of excitement!

If I can just break here for a moment to explain my-self.

Christina LOVES culture. So, this wasn't some of kind of runway fashion excitement (I love my sweats) No, this was a "AFRICAN CLOTHING?!?! What they wear on the other side of the world!?!" excitement.

At the start of the fashion show they talked about how the cotton is locally grown and how that directly influences the quality of the fabric.

I was in AWE when the ladies came out with how gorgeous the fabric is. The vibrant colors, the texture. It was a really great show.

Now, on to explaining the title of this blog post:

I've never had a green thumb. But wow, these days I've got a green thumb and probably entire hand, shoulder, foot....well you get what I mean

The gardening sale my mom and I attended before the festival was over at an extension office for WSU. It's an annual sale put on (always the first Sat. in May) by the 'Master Gardeners': Men and Women in our community to be worshiped for their wisdom and knowledge of gardening, or at least to be called (they have a handy hotline, er web site http://mastergardener.wsu.edu/).

Plants and Flowers sold at this sale are locally grown (remember the quality factor). And they're DIRT CHEAP..haha with dirt in them. Double points!

Very swiftly, or not so swiftly (I think we spent two hours there) my mom and I weighed ourselves down with $1 herbs, $3 tomato plants etc.. and trekked like sumo wrestlers to my car.

romaine lettuce, green leaf lettuce & rainbow chard

So, point!? I've been gardening for the last few/many days and LOVIN IT