LIFE

Mount Harmon’s Lotus Blossom Festival is Saturday

The News Journal

The annual Mount Harmon Lotus Blossom Festival on Saturday is billed as an Art & Nature Festival for the whole family. The festival, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., features Mount Harmon’s rare American lotus water lilies in full bloom.

The Carriage House Visitor Center in Earleville, Maryland, will feature a fine art show and sale. The grounds will be filled with artisans and craft vendors featuring everything from ceramics, food carvings, decoys, jewelry, textiles, soaps and beauty products, and botanicals to antiques and collectibles. Food vendors include Real McCoy BBQ, Kilby Creamery and Crow Winery.

There also will be live bluegrass music, manor house and colonial kitchen tours, as well as an official ribbon cutting for our new dock. 600 Mount Harmon Road, Earleville. (410) 275-8819; www.mountharmon.org.