Tangled Branches: Cultivated
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
The County Fair, Part 3 (Horticulture/Agriculture)
Taking advantage of today's wet weather to post the rest of the pictures I took at the Sandwich Fair last week. I decided to break this into several posts so as not to crash your browser. First up, the rest of the Horticulture and Agronomy displays.
Popcorn, my second favorite food.
Big is important at the fair. These dahlias were the size of lunch plates. (Dinner plates are bigger than they used to be. Lunch plates are now the size of dinner plates.)
The blue ribbon pumpkin weighed something over 300 pounds, if I remember correctly.
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5 Comments:
Crash my browser? What about the drool killing my keyboard? Entangled, those tomatoes and corn and squash look fabulous - then the dahlias appeared.
Now that's a cut flower!
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Annie: Oops, hadn't thought about the drool factor ;-)
Those dahlias were something - made me want to try my hand at growing some of the huge dinner-plate varieties. Or maybe not - I'm thinking they'd require some very heavy-duty staking and I don't like to stake.
I'm with Annie, the pics are making me hungry. It all looks so wholesome and good for you that I can barely stand it.
MBT: You reminded me that I haven't posted the rest of the pictures - the ones of the baking. Not nearly as good for you ;-)
I'm never going to get around to writing anything about these, but they're on Picasaweb: decorated cakes, bread, coffee cakes, jams and jellies. Feel better now?
I could spend all day there.
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