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RACINE — It’s just a week before the wedding and what’s a bride-to-be to do?
Run five miles, in a veil, with three bridesmaids and four friends — all while being doused with brightly colored powders that turn clothing and body parts Cheetos-orange, shocking magenta and margarita green.
“It’s not my actual veil,” laughed Racine resident Amanda Balcer, 21, before turning into a human rainbow. “I’m getting married May 26, so in seven days.”
Balcer and her bridal posse were just eight of the thousands of people who packed Downtown Racine on Saturday for an early-evening fun-run of sorts called The Color Run Racine.
Participants in the noncompetitive run or walk had to wear white, according to race organizers.
About every 15 minutes, race organizers called for mass color throws. But participants often decided to toss some color a little early.
The colored powders, akin to powdered sugar or cornstarch, sent puffs of colorful billows into the air. It streaked faces, streets and the backs of fathers — especially when little hands were wiped down their T-shirts during a momentary lapse or split-second decision to turn one’s back on a color-smeared child.
Walking and Laughing with Artists
"Moscow does not believe in tears" is not just the title of a film that once won the foreign film Oscar. It is a phrase that, perhaps, characterizes Russia's capital city better than any other combination of six words. Moscow is a tough town. You don't mess with Moscow. Moscow will bury you. That kind of thing.
If you've ever lived here you know how true that is.
But reputations, like laws, are made to be broken. If only just for a few moments at a time.
Saturday, May 19, was the target date for the second low-key political protest masquerading as no political protest at all, which took place in the course of a single week. The first was the Writers' Walk on May 13 which drew upwards of 20,000 people. That was a decidedly non-violent response to violent measures that the authorities repeatedly took against protesters in a week of events beginning the day before President Vladimir Putin 's inauguration on May 7. Saturday's march was called by the city's painters, sculptors, animators and graphic artists. It did not draw nearly the number of people as earlier protests have – I would guess that around 2,000 showed up – but size here isn't the point.
Tranquillity blooming in Valley Center
A veil of light purple is starting to cover several acres on a hillside in Valley Center as fields of lavender come into bloom at Keys Creek Lavender Farm.May and June is the best time to harvest oil from the lavender, but farm owner, Alicia Wolff and her partner, Chris Kurisu, are holding off.
They want folks to have a chance to see the commercial lavender farm at its peak when the purple blossoms are in full bloom, which is a rare sight for miles around. The fields have becomes such a popular destination for Mother’s Day that their annual luncheon is already sold out.
The organic farm, formerly known as the Lavender Fields, sits on 8 1/2 acres off, of all things, Lilac Road. It is the only known lavender farm in the county and grows 45,000 plants in 24 varieties on about 4 acres.
The farm draws hundreds of visitors each year, particularly during the peak season in May and June for tours, lavender tea, and lavender shopping. But, actually, the most sought after commodity at the farm is its tranquillity.

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