Be sure to check out Day One and Day Three of this event.
The Sunday morning drum circle: after what some people did last night I'm sure some of them weren't happy to hear the noise of these drums. |
Lorenzo (left) and Curly (right) standing next to Curly's BBQ smoker. Lorenzo runs the taco wagon next door. |
The Rock Solid Jade booth in which I worked all weekend. |
Mike Burkeo's blades again... my weekend obsession. |
A Burkleo piece. |
An amazing piece of botryoidal jade. |
The morning drum circles now in full swing. |
The sky offered no threatening or annoying dramas this year during the show unlike many past years when smoke or storm threatened. |
That is a piece of rare Vonson blue jade from Marin County on the right. |
This is Wyoming jade, the jade with my favorite outer rind. |
More Wyoming jade. |
An amazing piece of sodalite worthy of inclusion with all this great jade. |
This is a great event at which to acquire jade blocks or ..... |
.... jade slabs for making various cool things. |
The view into the show from the northern entrance at the northern parking lot. |
The view from the northeast corner of the show from along the base of the dirt road that heads up to a substantial home overlooking the Pacific Valley area. |
A sweet specimen of polished cats-eye jade. |
The opposite side of the aforementioned choice chunk of cats-eye jade. |
The layout of jade displays in general at the festival this year really seemed to jump in aesthetic quality. |
As stated previously, the quality of display of material seems to be really climbing as dealers try to outdo each other. |
This was one of the better jewelry displays I saw this weekend. |
The mix of wood and jade is very aesthetically effective in my view (and other's apparently). |
This was a simple but nice touch for displaying these pieces. |
Another notable jewelry display. |
My favorite jade carving at the festival this year - a great green, er, white shark. |
View this afternoon down the easternmost aisle. |
View this afternoon down the middle aisle. |
View this afternoon down the westernmost aisle. |
The first-ever pocket jade rock throwdown - a contest to see whom has the sweetest small unaltered pocket rock from each major jade locality. |
A fine piece of Big Sur jade. |
The legendary honey lemonade served at the festival. |
South view from the south driveway entrance to the venue. |
North view from the south entrance to the venue. |
The filled overflow parking area next to the public parking at Sand Dollar Beach across the street from Pacific Valley School where the jade festival is held. |
South view from the north entrance to the venue. |
North view from the north entrance. |
That's pretty close! |
The Fabulous Versa-Tones performing at the Saturday night music party for the dealers and volunteers. |
View of the school grounds during the aforementioned Saturday night music event. |
All photos by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).
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