How is it that you see this at the Chicago Flower & Garden Show?
and this?
and this?
All very explainable.
The dog is part of the CABRA cake decorating contest. Three preview cakes were on display, in anticipation of the Sunday March 13th competition. The finest cake decorators in the Chicagoland area will gather at the show to compete in the Chicago Areas Retail Bakers Association’s (CARBA) annual competition. Alliance, A Piece of Cake, Bleeding, Heart, Central Continental, Creative Cakes, Deerfield’s, Dinkel’s Fleckenstein’s, Kirsten’s, Danish, Piece-a-Cake, Roeser’s, and Swedish Bakeries will compete.
Real dogs were on-site as well. They were at display garden #29, ‘Time for Some…Dog Gone Fun , where trained agility dogs romped, were petted by the children, and were generally adorable.
The rooster is similar to the chickens from not one, but two, chicken coops at the show. One was at display garden #18, Conservation at Home: The Sustainable Yard. In this garden, presented by The Conservation Foundation, which protects land, habitat and water in Du Page County, you’ll see many ways to build conservation values into home life and the home garden, from native plants to wind turbines to recycled pavers, solar power and geothermal heating and cooling. Look for rain harvesting and composting, and making mead — the ancient, intoxicating brew that starts with honey. Speaking of animals, from time to time there will be demonstrations on worm composting and beekeeping, as well as raptors. Stop by and you may see the very impressive owls (raptors) that we saw.
You can save two dollars a ticket by purchasing on-line at JULIE. I purchased and printed ours just before we left home. Be sure to take the tickets with you. We had to come back for ours — they were not very useful when left on the printer. We got there early enough to park on-site, only $14 dollars with the $10 discount. The $14 discounted price was also available at the overflow garages located at 460 East Illinois and 403 East Grand, both 1 block from Navy Pier. Stop at the Garden Show ticket both to validate your parking ticket.
Oh, and about the tiger picture. This little stuffed toy was lost. Hopefully, it was also found by the child who lost it.
The critters were among my favorite things at the show! (especially the live ones.) I hope the tiger and it’s young owner were reunited. If not I hope its owner was able to sleep without it.