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Texas State Fair - Dallas, Texas
October 18, 2011

Big Tex is 55 feet tall and a fair fixture since 1952.
[Large statue of a man in Dickies clothing, boots, and a 10 gallon hat.]

Part of the butter display
[A woman in a hat and a young boy holding a live duck all carved from butter.]

Bordon's Elsie (33rd cow representing the brand.)
[Cow sitting in a wooden pen with a yellow flowered ring around its neck and a blanket across its back with the name Elsie on it and Bordon cow images scattered across it.]

One of Farmer Mike's carvings
[Face carved into the side of a large pumpkin. The face has a tongue sticking out.]

Miniature train display in the greenhouse exhibit (Train is in the upper right halfway across the bridge.)
[More than a half-dozen potted plants with red blooms hang from the ceiling. There are a multitude of different colored blooming plants as well as a plant in the foreground which only has bright large light-green leaves. A worn rusty-looking structure supports different levels of train tracks as the train weaves around the plants.]

Fresco on one of the buildings at the fairgrounds
[Painting on the stone of what appears to be both male and female Greek or Roman farm workers in the field.]

Part of the DRIVE4COPD Pinwheel Promise display: Be informed, supportive, and non-judgmental of COPD symptoms and management. (Pinwheels are recycled vehicle license plates.)
[Pinwheel created from license plates attached to form panels then folded to create the pinwheel.]

Re-creation of female portion of The Contralto (Fate of original created in 1936 for Texas Centennial is unknown.)
[All silver statue of a nude woman appearing to be running as her hair is straight back from her head and her arms are outstretched, one in front and the other behind her.]

Another sculpture on the fairgrounds
[Statue of a ram with extremely long horns.]

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All photos © S. M. Garver