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FRIDAY - June 8

9 PM - 11 PM - FREE - Look3 - Charlottesville Festival of the Photograph.  20 artists will showcase new and exciting work in a huge projection at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion.

Go early and check out the beautiful photography installments in and around the Downtown Mall.

SATURDAY - June 9

9 AM - Noon - $5.00 - The wonderful Piedmont Master Gardeners seasonal series, Through the Garden Gate is in Ivy.  A woodland garden tour.   Occurring the 2nd Saturday of the month from 9 - noon, hosted at a different garden each month. Hands down, this is my favorite Charlottesville area annual garden tour event. 

All day - Various loctions - FREE - Last day of the Charlottesville Festival of the Photograph, Look3 but many gallery installments will remain until later. 

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TODAY's DEAL

50% off the NEW Java Dragon Coffee House.  Pay $5.00 and get a $10.00 coupon.  Coffee, smoothies, local desserts, and wireless.  Sounds like a place to surf the internet "away from the stressors of home" or grab some coffee and a pastry on the go.  Next to Integral Yoga Natural Foods on Preston.  SUPPORT A NEW BUSINESS!

SATURDAY

Volunteer cleaning ears at the Clinic.

11 AM - 4 PM - September 24th - The 15th annual Charlottesville Vegetarian Festival will be held downtown in Lee Park (next to the Public Library).  This is a great festival sponsored by Voices for Animals.  Proceeds help with the Feral Cat Clinic that I volunteer with during the fall and winter months.  I will be manning the chicken booth. 

Knitters of the Newcomers "Stitch and Chat" group.

TUESDAY

10 AM - Noon - September 27 - The Newcomers Club of Greater Charlottesville will host their annual Fall Coffee at the Church of the Incarnation.  Any new resident to Charlottesville during the last three years is invited to attend.  This is a well attended event attracting over 100 newcomers.  Newcomers will have information about their activities and area non-profits will be on hand to answer questions about volunteering.  Great FOOD and a welcoming social.

-Rebecca

Heritage Harvest Festival

Just a reminder that tomorrow is the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello, "the gardening event of the year".

This is a festival to not miss.  Check out the schedule of some of the activities:

http://heritageharvestfestival.com/schedule-2011/.

There are too many to list but I'll be hanging around the Tasting Tent, swapping some seeds, and learning more about herbs.  See you there.

-Rebecca

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Peony, photo taken at Monticello by me.

My two favorite Charlottesville events occur in September. 

Not to be missed!

Sept 5 - Monday - Meet Yer Eats, Labor Day, 10-5.  $15.00 a car load - if you register by Sept 1, otherwise it's $25.00.  Twenty farms are participating in the third annual Market Central Farm Tour.  We visited 8 farms last year and that was all we could squish in.  It was loads of fun and along the route we encountered farms animals, beautiful scenery, plants, and homemade cheese and jellies.  Last year we headed north and this year we'll go south.

Anthony took this photo my cousins wedding - I enhanced it.

Sept 17 - Saturday - Heritage Harvest Festival, 9-4. $8.00 - if you pre-register, otherwise it's $10.00.  The festival is on the grounds of Monticello.  You must take a shuttle up from 2 designated locations otherwise you are charged the full house tour fee.  If you want to go to exclusive lectures the day prior, it's pricey, the featured speaker is P. Allen Smith.  Many free lectures and also additional fee lectures.  It's really not necessary to pay for lectures, there is plenty to do for the base $8.00 price!  Food venders, demonstrations, taste testing of produce, seed exchange, seeds and plants for sale, and strolling the grounds of Monticello -- the only reason I go there anyway!