The Sandy Springs Festival really hit its stride on its last day, Sunday. As the sky filled with sunshine and with nary a rain cloud in sight, patrons filled the blocked-off streets.
Isabella Cain and her younger sister, Sophia, prepare to pet the brown cow at the petting zoo.
Ivy Ostby, of Roswell, plays with the chickens, her favorite animals in the whole petting zoo.
Peter Hart gives a puppet show, featuring a dancing rabbit and flying unicorns, to an enrapt audience.
Kids enjoy ridding on the whirly wheel.
Children mill about the stand to make art by filling glass bottles with sands of different colors.
Caroline (left) and Anna Shutley show off their colorful faces while talking to their parents about which activity to do next.
Virginia, Will (center), and Robert Fuss, along with their parents Steve and Catherine, learn about the deadliest of arrowheads at the Native American Technologies tent, helmed by Ben Kirkland of Cheh
Mary Morgan Walker laughs with her mom and dad while waiting to get her face painted.
Seven-year-old Caroline Mitchem gets her face painted by a red-headed clown.
Michael O’Connor plays with a helicopter that he got at the Home Depot stand while his sister, Megan, toys with her plane.
Emma McDonough munches on a Tootsie Roll while her friends, Sophia Eyre and Emily Nicole Lutrick, watch as a marching band marches by.
Hannah Eyre makes sure to hold onto the family dog while she walks around the festival. She adored the canine show earlier in the day.
North Springs High School’s marching band plays to an energetic audience.
Jennifer and Matt Goggin of Marietta sit with their boys, Bobby (left) and Jack (right), as they recline on the hill and appreciate the high school’s performance.
Leticia Weidenhamer tends to her friend’s baby, Addison Murrell, as she enjoys the band’s music.
Naja Hicks, of Alpharetta, and her mother, Rhonda, eat lunch in the shade while listening to the high school’s music.
Icaro Onofre, in a mock fireman’s hat, and Dina Melo ponder where to grab some grub as the afternoon heat begins to get to them.
Ahsan Kahn, from Roswell, walks around the festival with her daughters, Sana (left) and Huma (right).
Gus Melton, from Cumming, and his daughter, Olivia, contemplate what to do next while his son, Gus IV, complains about the oppressive heat. Even at the cusp of fall, the temperature hit 78.
David Nadav plays with a balloon sword while donning a toy fireman’s helmet.
A colorful train picks up fair-goers at the street entrance to the United Methodist Church Hitson Center.
Children bungeed up and down and all-around.
Children enjoyed the inflatable amusements near the United Methodist Church Hitson Center.
Crowds meandered about the streets of the Sandy Springs Festival well into the afternoon.
