La Paix Herb Farm 2007 Photos by Mike Costello unless otherwise noted.
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The vendors were happy!
Melissa Dennison, Garden Treasures,
sold out - plants, soap, lavender bouquets!

She also taught two workshops:  lavender wand making and lavender soap making.
Photographs by Mike Costello

Neal McCloskey entertains with 60's folk songs.

Photographs by Mike Costello, Photojournalist,
WVU graduate,
now with WV Sustainable Communities Project.

 Jerry Levin (Dugan) plays Pete Seeger songs for an appreciative audience.  Jerry and I (Myra) went to Washington College together awhile ago.

Neal and Jerry harmonize.

The setting for the Lavender Fair 
Big Fragrant Garden  Photographer:  Mike Costello

The Feng
Shui Garden

Photograph by Myra Bonhage-Hale

The bathtub in the Big Fragrant Garden
photographs by Myra Bonhage-Hale

The entrance to the Feng Shui Garden with Holy Garden Shed in background.

Nancy Longo of Pierpoint Restaurant, Fells Point, Baltimore, Maryland wields a mighty chef's knife.

Nancy, Executive Chef and Owner of Pierpoint Restaurant in Baltimore Maryland, prepares Herb Crusted Halibut with Lemon Grass Lavender Buerre Blanc.  Myra collected these herbs and lemon thyme, Rosemary and Lemon Balm for this delicious recipe.

Photographs by Mike Costello.  Myra cropped the Ratatouille close up.

Elaine Ferry RN and Justin Wizard, two presenters at the Fair sample Nancy's halibut and
proclaim it delicious!

The fascinated audience obviously savors Nancy's offering.  The house crew did too at the end of the evening - as an appetizer!

Dale Hawkins, Executive Chef of Stonewall Resort in Roanoke, Lewis County, home of the La Paix Lavender Fair, prepares a Vegetarian Ratatoille dish for an expectant and impatient audience of waiting pre-registered guests.  Dale's menu (for complete menu see Lavender Fair  2007) also included Barbequed Lavender Chicken Skewer with Cucumber Salsa.  Dale and I agreed that he had outdone himself at this 5th Fair, a difficult task!

Professor Bob Maslowski took an intensely interested group of people through La Paix's woods to discover edible wild mushrooms (the heavy rain on Friday before the Fair saved the mushroom walk).

As an eager mushroom hunter discovers another oyster mushroom on the fallen log in La Paix's woods, the intrepid photographer, Mike Costello, takes an arty photo of an oyster mushroom on a log in the foreground.

A young explorer discovers a mushroom among the many ferns in the wood at La Paix,

while a slightly older explorer sniffs an oyster mushroom.

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