August 24, 2013 Oroville, Washington

We could not pass up another festival, so we went to the Garlic Festival in Tonasket.

They even have Transylvanian garlic. I wonder if it is for keeping vampires away? Who knew there were so many kinds of garlic. Noah is telling John that his garlics are seed garlics. Not as good as eating garlics. If they are 2 inches or bigger in diameter they are for seed, they don’t have as good a flavor. We bought some of his ‘rejects’, smaller than 2 inches with much better flavor. He grows an acre of garlic. Sounds like lots of work.

This old guy just looks like a garlic farmer. Purple garlics and of course a huge garlic clove at the gate.  The garlic festival was much like most of the other festivals we have been too, food, jewelry, home made crafts and jellies. some music no one was listening too.  We bought some garlic, garlic powder and of course more fresh basil.

Another pound of basil and made more pesto.  Most of the Okanagan valley is fruit orchards and vineyards.  They also grow peaches, nectarines and cherries. These are pears and apples.

There are blocks of these huge crates for shipping fruit in. We went up to Molson, Washington. It was once a gold boom town in the early 1900’s. These are some of the old buildings.

Molson, Washington. Down the road was a big old school house that is now a museum. The school closed in 1962 and they bused the kids down to Oroville after that. This classroom was as it was the day it closed. John remembers using desks like this.

Sue Palmer at Palmer Lake. Sunset on the river at the RV park.