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  • Cynthia Qloud of Des Moines feels the woven wire sculptures of San Francisco artist Michael Gard Saturday morning at the Des Moines Arts Festival. Qloud, who is blind, loves to visit the festival, as many artists will allow her to touch their work. "You don't get to do that at a museum," she says.

  • Zach Edwards of Des Moines leans to try to catch water from a fountain Thursday at the Iowa State Fair. Temperatures in the 90s had people looking for ways to stay cool.

  • Nice legs. Apollo the miniature pinscher takes a look around from his hind legs while standing with his owner, Anne Kurgan of Omaha Saturday at the Great Iowa Pet Expo at the State Fairgrounds. Kurgan was waiting with Apollo to take the canine good citizen test. The mission of the Great Iowa Pet Expo is to promote the health and well-being of Iowa's companion animals; to educate Iowa pet owners on the importance of spaying, neutering & regular veterinary care; and to encourage pet ownership as a lifetime commitment.

  • A whirlwind of shoppers moves through Jordan Creek Town Center while some sit to take a break in the early morning hours on black Friday.

  • Markeshia Kennedy, 16, washes the hair of her sister, Jasmine, 9, while sister DeJoan towels off following her washing in their Des Moines home. The sisters were working on their hair together in preparation for the first day of school. The girls along with their mother, Stephanie Kennedy, have settled in Des Moines after their home was flooded by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

  • Clive Elementary School fourth grader Mark Fowler, 9, of Windsor Heights takes a watery flight from of a slide Tuesday, August 30 at the Clive Aquatic Center. The entire school earned a three hour trip to the pool after the student body met summer readership goals.

  • Wanda Cox of Boone is lifted and "spinned" by the purple-coiffed Team Spin on RAGBRAI XXV in Eagle Grove, July 24, 2007. Team Spin gives the ride to women after covering their bodies with stickers.

  • Urbandale Jazz Band guitarist Patrick Francis Daugherty gets a little help with tuning from bandmate Kelsey Brown while they wait to warm up before their performance at the Iowa Jazz Championships at the Des Moines Civic Center.

  • Catrina Dixson, 4, right, tries her hand at roping with a lasso while (from left) Jacob Derrer, 6, of Portales, New Mexico, his brother Bryce Derrer, 8, and Freeman Detweiler, 8, of Stoughton, Wisc., watch her performance Friday at the Iowa State Fair.

  • "I love you," Candi Diercks says to her son, Matt, 30, while planting a kiss on his cheek while he rests before one of his therapy sessions at On With Life, a brain injury rehabilitation center in Ankeny. Matt was injured in a motorcycle accident in July and has been rehabbing at On With Life since October. Matt can't speak yet, but responds to his mother's kiss by opening and closing his jaw and an occasional moan. Candi and her husband, Jeff, moved to Ankeny from Sabula to be near Matt while he recovers.

  • "Is it red?" Annabelle Costanzo, 12, asks of her mother, Gina, while looking at a set of Christmas lights in the living room of her Polk City home. She is putting her improving eyesight to the test each day since undergoing a cornea transplant in her left eye. She can see blue and red clearly now after only being able to see shades of gray before the transplant. Blind since birth, she has undergone multiple eye surgeries that allow her to see shades of light.

  • Camper Benjamin Anderson of Ankeny elates in meeting Tag, one of hundreds of horses that arrived carrying riders at the 40th annual Pony Express Ride Saturday afternoon at Easter Seals Camp Sunnyside on Des Moines' north side. The ride raises money for Easter Seals and helps fund Camp Sunnyside, which offers disabled children and adults a traditional summer camp experience. Anderson has cerebral palsy and is blind.

  • Floating on a sea of hands above joyous faces, Ankeny senior Tom Wignes body surfs the crowded Val Air ballroom floor at the 2008 Ankeny prom.

  • Dance instructor Tanya Harmeyer, right, straightens the bow of Jordan Widmer, 5, of Runnells while she waits with her fellow tapdancers backstage at the Susan Knapp Amphitheater at the at the Iowa State Fair Saturday, August 16, 2008. The group was part of a performance by the Pat Barton Dance Studio in Altoona.

  • The hare in Barry Flanagan's "Thinker on a Rock" appears to ponder a trio of window washers scaling Wellmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield's new headquarters building across from the Pappajohn Sculpture Park August 24, 2010 in downtown Des Moines, Iowa.

  • Tristan Sebring, 1, gets a ride from his mother, Erica Langmade of Boone while the two cross a path of step stones over a creek Tuesday afternoon at Ledges State Park near Boone. The two were making the most of this spring's warmest day, as temperatures went well over 70 degrees. "It's beautiful!" Langmade exclaimed.

  • Children march with Latin American flags during the parade of countries Saturday at the Latino Heritage Festival at Blank Park. The event, which continues Sunday, celebrates the Latino community's accomplishments and ethnicity. Drawing several thousand, the festival is the largest ethnic event in the state of Iowa and features Latin American food, entertainment, cultural displays and vendors.

  • Mitchell Grimes, 7, of Greenwich, Conn. became a favorite perch for Morpho butterflies at the butterfly house at the Iowa State Fair Saturday, August 9, 2008. He is visiting Iowa for a family reunion. The butterfly house is filled with over 5,000 enormous, colorful tropical butterflies and patrons are allowed, even encouraged, to hold the butterflies, as long as they don't touch the wings.

  • Alexa Weber, 5, of Waukee swings under fall foliage at Greenbelt Park in Clive. She and her grandmother, Charlotte Schmidt of Clive were there to take in the fall colors.

  • Alexander Lesher of West Des Moines, a member of the Central Campus JROTC, holds up the center of a 20x36 foot American Flag during the veteran's day parade Monday at the Iowa State fair. Veterans and Active duty military were honored during the parade. (Christopher Gannon/The Register) -- des.m0814fair - shot by Christopher Gannon/The Register on 8/13/12 in Des Moines, IA