A Fall Festival Day Saturday / 10.21.06 / 09:52PM / Joe
We went to some kind of "fall festival" thing today. I don't know what it was actually called, but it was held at one of those huge nursery / country craft / baked goods joints. We have a zillion of them out here. You got your greenhouse section, your overpriced bulk candy, your homemade bakery, and lots of pre-fab wooden collectible junk painted to already look old.
This particular store conglomerate sits on a farm, which was then decked out with play areas and food vendors.
Here's Clark in the choose-your-pumpkin zone, which led right into a tiny corn maze that we didn't do because it cost $3. What kind of man charges people to run through a corn field?
This is the kind of man who doesn't pay for it. Two of them.
These places always have a fleet of nasty, rusty wagons. They're easier (and "homier" (and "penicillinier")) than shopping carts for dragging your boxed perennials up to the outdoor counter. This was Clark's first ride in such a thing.
There was also a kids' play area painted to a Wizard of Oz theme. Here Clark monopolizes the "beat on old broken flower pots" section. You remember that from the movie.
I'm sure there's a photography term for this, but I'll just go with "unfortunate weed placement."
On a hayride. Rhonda called this the "good view" of the horses.
And, as if their liability wasn't heavy enough, here is a slide that ends in a massive hay pile. |