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(Photos taken thru display case windows, reflecting fluorescent lighting)
The Iowa State Fair's famous butter cow will be joined by two other butter sculptures this year.
Sarah Pratt tells WHO Radio News she's creating a replica of the Waterford Chrystal Solheim Cup Golf Tourney trophy. She plans to finish it during the first two days of the fair. The international womens golf tournament is August 14th-20th at Des Moines Golf and Country Club in West Des Moines.
Pratt is also marking the 150th year of author Laura Ingalls Wilder's birth. She's sculpting a young Laura and her sister Mary, in the pasture, going after the cow.
Ingalls Wilder lived in Burr Oak, Iowa in 1876 and 1877. Mary Ingalls also studied at the Iowa School for the Blind in Vinton, Iowa.
Pratt's nieces, nine year old Claire Doyle and 12 year old Abigail Bayse served as models for the sculptures of the two young Ingalls girls.
The butter sculptures are in refrigerated coolers in the Agriculture Building. The Iowa State Fair begins Thursday, August 10th.