it also marks my 5th year covering the festival, which brings about reflection of how much things have changed over the years. with this being essentially bush’s last chance, he really did not need to be involved in this at all. i will definitely go back again one day. maybe even busier than in spring. i went head and just cut the tops and blossom ends off, and used everything else. but if you fly by and you see a team that looks like it’s got a good chance of defeating it, people do stop to help take it down, just for fun. 