A fun packed month for Siesta Key and another great year of fantastic sand sculpting at Siesta Key’s 5th Annual Crystal Classic Master Sand Sculpting. And the winners are:
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1st place winners: “Keyless” by Morgan Rudluff and Abram Waterman. (photos by Emy Stein)
 2nd place winners:
“Crystaline” by
Fergus Mulvany
and Delayne Corbett.
 3rd place winners: “Mother of Dragons” by Dan Belcher and Karen Fralich.Â
 People’s Choice: “Miracle of Life” by John Gowdy and Jan Zelinka.
 Fun and light-hearted “Siesta Selfie” by Ron McDonald and Steve Topazio.
The following photos taken by Jaye Clements.
Delayne and Fergus from Canada.
Abe from Canada and Morgan from California.
Jan from Czech, John from Italy
Steve from Rhode Island, Ronald from Orlando
Matt, Andy from NY
Carol & Tom from Venice
Terry & Darlene from Venice seasonably – snowbirds from MI
Shawna, Brenna age 4 from St Louis, Angela from Tampa, Shannon from St. Louis and Isabel from Sarasota
Bayou age 14, Greg, James, Brandon
Joie age 3 and Ella age 1 from Bradenton
Stacey, Phinley age 3, Riley age 9 and Ashley from Sarasota
 Blues Music Lovers at Venice Blues Festival Theresa from Ozona, Fl and Paul from Homosassa – dancing to the blues!
Darlene, Sandy, Caroline & Ed
 Chalk Festival in Venice
Adry from Mexico
Danae, Katie from Canada
Dianne from Atlanta
 Sandfest 2014: This year’s Hoedown theme brought out all the cowboys and cowgirls for a festive time on the shores of Siesta beach… (photos by Emy Stein)
J.D. Smith hangs out with Connie Lewis (l) owner of Massage Experience Siesta Key and Donnarose Melvin, island resident and psychic all enjoying a few moments together.
The cowboy grub served included beef ribs, beef roast, beans and a host of other delectable choices. A far cry from the hard biscuits and beans usually served on the trail.
Well shucks, can’t have a Hoedown without some good ‘ole country music, and of course, line dancing.
Attendees were treated to artist and sculptor, John Gowdy’s flamboyant artistic paintings of John Wayne and John Lennon. Each painting was auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Lynn & Bob Shaffer, owners of ABC Rentals, come to collect their hard won painting from artist John Gowdy.
This month’s island girl is Joy of Lakeland, Florida celebrating her birthday on awesome Siesta beach. (Photo by Trebor Britt)Â
