The Medina Mud Band's Farkleberry Festival

at Bastrop State Park

Most of the group is pictured here, although some were out walking in the woods and some were yet to arrive.

On the first weekend in November, the Medina Mud Band got together in beautiful Bastrop State Park, home of the "Lost Pines", for an almost-annual retreat, party, and musical extravaganza. The band has acquired some second and third generation participants! One of the indigenous plants in the park is the elusive Farkleberry - hence the name, Farkleberry Festival.

The favorite meeting place was in front of the community building which had the group kitchen and dance hall.

Cookouts were the order of the weekend - Carol gets a sneak preview before Bill puts the burgers on the grill.

A third-generation band groupie orders up a drink from a convenient faucet.

As the sun went down over the pine trees, the original band members and the ex officio members (anybody that was willing) gathered in the hall for some picking and singing.

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