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In Texas any excuse for a festival is a good excuse. Parker County has a few peach orchards. These orchards produce peaches sold only in Texas, mostly north Texas, mostly in Parker County. The peaches do provide a good reason to have a fun festival in Weatherford, the county seat of Parker County. The Peach Festival takes place in the blocks surrounding the downtown Weatherford Parker County Courthouse. |
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The county courthouse in Weatherford is among the most interesting in the north Texas zone, along with Granbury and Waxahachie. |
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In Weatherford you will find a large Public Market where you can buy all sorts of produce, including Parker County Peaches. |
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Here we see a cook preparing a batch of Peach Plop Pie, keeping it churned up for a 2 o'clock date with a group of 12 scheduled to bob for numbered peach pits to gain some very good prizes, such as trips, money and big screen TVs. We will see this event at the end of our visit to the Parker County Peach Festival. | |||||
An excellent example of Texas Big Hair. | |||||
CLICK HERE FOR A MAP WITH DIRECTIONS TO THE PEACH FESTIVAL LOCATION |
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A monster on the left and a monster of a courthouse in the center. | |||||
This festival attracts some very good artisans. Here we see some paintings on corrugated steel. |
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It is July in Texas. So it is hot. As it is at any public event during the hot season there are cooling methods. Here we see a walk through cooling mister. |
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Peach Julep. It was good. |
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The Parker County Peach Festival had 4 music venues. In this one it appears that a little girl is singing for some cowboys. |
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Now it is time for some Peach Cobbler. |
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This overly tall cowboy seems to appear at many events in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. | |||||
It is time for another misting. Very convenient how these appear regularly to cool you off just when you start to overheat. |
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Others have other methods of keeping cool. Here we see the umbrella method, appropriately by a vendor of chilies from San Antonio. |
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Another example of the special vendors attracted to this festival. |
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We've had Peach Julep and Peach Cobbler. Now it's time for some Peach Ice Cream. It is homemade, the old-fashioned method, and demand outruns supply every year.
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These special Texas wind chimes are outlawed in some communities. |
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Another music venue with a very young listener. |
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Here we see a view of a few of a very large music ensemble playing some sort of rock music. They were very good. The first photo is from inside the tent. The second photo is the same view, but from outside the tent. |
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That music was hot so it's time for another cooling in another walk through mister before we get to the peach pit diving. |
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Here we see one of the peach pit divers after retrieving a pit. The mix of peaches, sugar and water was very slippery and had begun to ferment by the time the pit diving began. |
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And here we see the final peach pit diver with the Weatherford Court House behind her. And with that it is time to leave the Parker County Peach Festival. |
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