Ribs, live music near Lake Agnes

Mark Weston of Weston Station cooked up some ribs last night at the big rib festival in Alex. According to cub reporter Tom Obert, Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer - in Alex, with the Awake the Lakes festival that began tonight with the RibFest and live music along 2nd Avenue overlooking Lake Agnes. Because every month since December has been below normal temperature-wise (except January, which was normal, i.e., quite cold), last night was a particularly pleasant surprise - a tad windy, but otherwise lovely (last year Awake the Lakes featured gale force winds with qwind chill temps in the 20's).