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California post-Labor Day festivals help ease the feeling that summer is over. It’s hot outside  and California’s REAL summer has just begun, weather-wise. Find some cool shade, a cold beer and watch the weekend unfold. It’s all about YOU!

Here are details about  events on this list: 

• DRY BEAN FESTIVAL: Have you cooked your Tracy Dry Beans? This weekend you discover what beans are all about at the Dry Bean Festivals.
• ROSE FESTIVAL: Roses smell so sweet and they look so beautiful. Why not visit the Rose Capital of the World to experience the Wasco Rose Festival and Parade?
• BEER FESTIVAL: California  wins awards for many of its microbrewed beers. Go see, smell and taste this golden beverages at San Dimas California Beer Festival.
• HONEY BEE FESTIVAL: Head for a place called Palo Cedro to pay your respects to bees!
• LOBSTER FESTIVAL: Lobster season has arrived…hooray!  Long Beach celebrates lobster this weekend with the Original Lobster Festival.
• STREET PAINTING FESTIVAL: Street painters unite! There’s a real art to street painting, as you’ll discover at San Luis Obispo Street Painting Festival.
• ART FESTIVAL: There is always a wine event or festival happening…every weekend somewhere in California, that is. Well this weekend art & wine combine for esthetic pleasure at Mountain View Art & Wine Festival.
• JAZZ FESTIVAL: Jazz is music for the soul. At BB Jazz Festival in Huntington Beach you can hear two solid days of jazz.
• 4 GREEK FESTIVALS: Got Greek? We’re just getting over last week’s greek extravaganza, but please, don’t let it stop you from saying “Opa!” There are Greek festivals in Santa Cruz, Cardiff by the Sea, Los Angeles and Stockton starting today.
• 3 FAIRS: Tulelake/Butte Valley, Los Angeles Fair, Gold Country Fair