It was another excellent weekend of street fairs and festivals. This time we drove up to Ojai. Ojai is a diamond in the rough for many southern Californians. Ojai Valley is nestled 20 minutes inland from the Pacific Coast Highway about half an hour south of Santa Barbara.
We visited the Ventura County Pottery Guild's festival which was taking place in the main park downtown in Ojai. I spent some time speaking with Harry Poliak a local sculpture/potter/ceramic instructor/and kiln repair man. Harry's collection was especially interesting because half was the usual mug and bowl line of ceramics and the other half was a wild sculpture collection with some serious cultural influences.
We ended up buying 1 mug $15.00, and a couple plant like dishes one of which was only $5.00 - both looked like lily pads - awesome!