“Bow-making has become an art,” the Leary resident explained. She made many hairbows for her daughters and now makes them for her granddaughters.

Origami, Tate said, is the art of taking a small bow designed for a baby and adding layers to accommodate a growing girl.

Amid the many arts and crafts examples in the park were ornamental flamingoes made from tires and painted pink. The standing creatures had wood heads.

Miri Brengosz, 6, tackled a hot dog after the Miss Patty Cake concert. Later, she would indulge in a strawberry snowcone.

Miri participated in the Rose City Run Saturday morning. “She said she felt like she came in first,” said the child’s mother, Cindy Brengosz.

Bobby Wilkes was frantically busy frying thin, curly strips of white and sweet potatoes. His food booth, Wilkes Concession, a family operation, has made the Rose Festival scene for seven or eight years.

“Y’all have a good show here. It’s not just the show. It’s the people,” Wilkes explained.

A construction worker during the week, Wilkes, a Moultrie resident, takes the food concession on the road weekends. It is his hobby.

Another event in Paradise Park was the Civic Garden Show, where Gladys Leaks won the top award for the best rose.

Downtown Saturday afternoon, the area around Thomas County Courthouse was alive with vintage automobiles and trucks in Thomasville Police Department’s annual car and truck show.

A red-red 1957 two-door hardtop Chevrolet Bel Air screamed nostalgia. Likewise for a nearby mustard-yellow two-door Chevrolet from the mid-1950s.

Bruno Schmidt’s modified replica of a 1934 Mercedes was a stand-out car.

The trunk is small, so Schmidt installed a 1930 add-on trunk suitable for tail-gating. The trunk was outfitted Saturday with wine, cheese, flowers, petits fours, and, of course, Grey Poupon mustard, just in case.

“When I got it, it was in pieces and parts. ... It had no engine,” Schmidt, a Tampa, Fla. resident, explained.

Taking a year to restore, the vehicle has a 400-horsepower 383 Stroker engine.