It's Fair Time 7/12/2014 And We Are Ready (Page Two)
What is the first thing we see? The Giant Wheel
The fair was organized very will this year!
We were inside in a flash and attacking the rolls
Sue got the iced coffee
We experienced the tradition....
Not a single calorie.... Yeah!
Yes... Sue Drug Paul Onto The Ferris Wheel
130 feet into the sky... With no visible means of support
Held together by spit and tissue paper!
Defying death
It's 10:30 am and the lot is "empty"
Fearless
Let's Shop And Have A Glass Of Wine Before The Crowds Come
"See you later... I am taking a nap!"
We Walked Through Several Buildings... Time For Wine!
We understand wine... Took us a while but we have it down pat
Posing 101
Big smiles
It doesn't get any better
than this....
Serious expression... Means it's time to go to the next stop
Paul agrees... He wants to see the animals and gardens
Perhaps some Gourmet Italian Food.... Whoa, "Gourmet" at the fair??
Did You Know? - Gourmet /ɡɔrˈmeɪ/ is a cultural ideal associated with the culinary arts of fine food and drink, or haute cuisine, which is characterised by refined, even elaborate preparations and presentations of aesthetically balanced meals of several contrasting, often quite rich courses. The term and its associated practices are usually used positively to describe people of refined taste and passion.
Time to stroll, learn, and laugh
Did You Know? - Centennial Farm is a three-acre working farm at the OC Fair & Event Center created to educate youth about agriculture and its importance to daily life. The Farm is home to fruit and vegetable gardens, livestock, and the Millennium Barn. Children and adults can view pigs, chickens, cattle, goats and more while strolling though gardens of lush vegetation.
Just sitting and watching
The llama needs a dentist
Did You Know About Llamas?
Llamas are incomplete ruminants, with only three stomach compartments.
The average wight is 350 lbs. for an adult.
The most common noise that llamas make is a Hum. Llamas hum to express themselves both when they are happy and stressed out. Mothers also talk to their babies in this way.
Llamas usually live 17-23 years.
Llamas do not generally like to spit. Only llamas that have not been handled properly or have been tormented will spit. After a llama spits cud it walks around with its mouth open to get the taste out of its mouth.
We finally got him to smile
The hanging baskets were beautiful
Talk about horny!
The calf is about six months old
Ewwww... Needs new water soon
Great place to learn about animals
"OK... Give me a dollar and I will Moo"
We hardly ever see kids stopping and reading...
We stop and read but at our age we soon forget
More baskets
The goats were enjoying all the attention
Nick and Robin study their behavior up close
The babies were born on the 3rd of July.. Today is the 12th
Neat name for Mom.... BUTTERSCOTCH
Did You Know? - Butterscotch is a type of confectionery whose primary ingredients are brown sugar and butter, although other ingredients such as corn syrup, cream, vanilla, and salt are part of some recipes. According to "Housewife's Corner" in an 1848 newspaper, the real recipe for "making Doncaster butterscotch is one pound of butter, one pound of sugar and a quarter of a pound of treacle, boiled together."
Butterscotch is similar to toffee, but for butterscotch the sugar is boiled to the soft crack stage, and not hard crack as with toffee.[2] Butterscotch sauce is often made into a syrup, which is used as a topping for ice cream (particularly sundaes).
"Hey Mom... Wake up... Wake up"
We checked.... The corn was a tall as an elephants eye
We need all we can get
You cannot hide from us!
These yellow onions looked great
The white onions are coming right along
The grapes looked great until we got up close...
Did You Know? - Powdery mildew is a common disease on many types of plants. Several powdery mildew fungi cause similar diseases on different plants (such as Podosphaera species on apple and stone fruits; Sphaerotheca species on berries and stone fruits; Erysiphe necator on grapevines.
Powdery mildew fungi generally require moist conditions to release overwintering spores and for those spores to germinate and infect a plant. However, no moisture is needed for the fungus to establish itself and grow after infecting the plant.
Powdery mildews normally do well in warm, Mediterranean-type climates. Thus powdery mildews are more prevalent than many other diseases in California's dry summer and fall seasons.
The arbor was loaded
Reds and greens living together in peace
We didn't
There were butterflies all over the bush
Live and learn
"Whaddya mean it's still three months until Halloween?"
The cabbage was growing in the heat? We never plant it during the summer.
Yummy
Sweet potatoes
Sweet Potato Piggies
Did you know that??
Another great face!
Truly amazing
The corn was beautiful
You can always count on teenagers to smile.... NOT!
We showed Robin where the sunflower seeds were located
These guys were 8-10 feet tall
A sea of peppers
Hot time in the old town tonight
Loads of heartburn in this patch of the garden
Dahlia's are a favorite
Did You Know? -
What did the Aztecs in Mexico call Dahlias?
The Aztecs cultivated the dahlia, used them as ornamental flowers, for medicine and as tubers to feed their animals. They had many names for the plant, including Acocotli, or water throat because the stems provided an emergency water supply for hunters, Cocoxochitl (pronounced: co-COX-oh-cheetle), which means water pipe, and Chichipatli , bitter medicine.
Amazing colors
Big difference!
We prefer the color
Always a magnificent site.....
Inside the fruit and vegetable tent the creative people were busy
These grapes were beautiful.... No mildew at all
Robin could see the seeds up close.... We used to pick seeds and roast them
Two glasses of lemonade in this puppy
We need to enter next year
We hope this does NOT become a lost art
Hundreds of categories and entries
A farmers chandelier
