(Photo by Dave Gershgorn for WSB)

10:27 AM: The West Side IS the best side, as artist Cody Huff‘s painting declares, and West Seattle Summer Fest is a reminder! The third and final day has begun, and we’re again on site to cover it. Here in the Info Booth, the biggest question so far this morning is “where’s the Farmers’ Market?” – answer: North of Oregon, right now, until 2 pm. We’re heading that way right now!

11:12 AM: Just back from the market. What you won’t find this week is many of the fresh-cooked food providers – but produce abounds, berries and greens and more. Among the produce sellers, the Alvarez farm, with both purple and white spring onion bunchesam!

The market’s on until 2; meantime, here in the festival zone, music just started, West Side Stage only today, with this lineup:

11:00 Matt Benham & David Weidig
12:00 WSMA + Sweetiest Sweeties
1:00 Sonny Parker
2:00 Baby Crow Flight School
3:00 Massy Ferguson

And the nonprofits with us in the Info Booth right now are the Seattle Emergency Hubs (learn what to do and where to go in case of catastrophe) and,making an encore, RainWise. Even if you’ve been here once, Sunday is a stellar day to wander one more time.

12:28 PM: The day is flying by. Remember that there’s lots of room to sit in the shade – like by the only music stage operating today, the West Side Stage:

That’s the crowd cheering for West Side Music Academy students on the stage (which is sponsored by the WSMA) this hour. We recorded one of them – great job on piano!

Headed to Summer Fest are the 16 riders who joined in the “Little STP” bike ride in West Seattle this morning – Al sent the photo from the Portland end of the ride (44th SW/SW Portland in Gatewood):

If you have trouble finding bike parking, there’s a corral toward the northwest end side.

12:56 PM: Speaking of transportation, Sound Transit is here, on the south half (south of Alaska) of the booth zone, if you have questions about light rail. And here in the info booth, the 1 pm changeover has brought in the Puget Sound Regional Council – ready to chat about big-picture issues – and SPD civilian staff, with crime prevention the focus (ask about the safety class that’s coming up this week)…. The Trombone King, featured here last night, has started playing again. WSB’s Hayden Yu Andersen talked to him briefly:

Hayden reports, “Roy Lancaster, aka Trombone King 504, is a performer from New Orleans. He wished everyone a happy Summer Fest, and said ‘please deposit any complaints on the back of a 100 dollar bill’.”

1:45 PM: Last few hours mean one more chance to connect with vendors. Hayden talked to the local handmade-earring creators at Kellan and Kiera:

Last call for the Farmers’ Market, too, bursting with berries and cherries today as well as our personal favorite, salad greenery – the market closes at 2 as usual; the rest of Summer Fest is carrying on until 5.