festival season

I remember the thrill that came with warm weather in Chicago. It seemed that, starting around June, there would be some sort of neighborhood festival every weekend. I used to go to Market Days, Wicker Park festival, Lakeview art festival, 57th Street Art Fair, Printer's Row Book Fair, the outdoor films in Grant Park, Lollapalooza and anything else I stumbled across while walking to and from public transportation. So, you can imagine my glee when I realized that festival season has already started here.
Last weekend was Eeyore's Birthday and this weekend is the Pecan Street festival. I just got back with some incense, handmade soap, and locally-produced honey in my purse. It seems I'm pretty willing to go hippie when it comes to street fairs. The Pecan Street festival is an arts and crafts fair with live music and reasonably-priced cans of beer. Now, I won't give high marks to the arts and crafts present (it's like any other "art" fair in that there's only a few tents that have really impressive work to show) but I enjoyed walking around browsing with a TECATE in hand.