Fall is...fallen?
Oct. 4th, 2008 10:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitanziAutumn does eventually get to Georgia, and we're just starting to feel the chill in the morning. (This will, undoubtedly, not prevent us from having summery days in December, complete with ice cream trucks, but that's another post, to mangle Alton Brown's catchphrase.)
Today I went to the farmer's market, as I have all summer, and found that this is apparently The Weekend of the Fall Festival. I passed signs for or saw preparations for Fall Festivals, Harvest Festivals, Pumpkin Fair and Bakesale, Crabapple Fest, Fall Hay Rides, and the Scarecrow Festival, which is in fact being set up right by the farmer's market - clever of someone. As part of the Scarecrow Festival elementary school kids yearly make and decorate bunches of scarecrows and put them up, with signs, along Main Street. This year, among others, we have the Statue of Liberty, Miss America, and Michael Phelps. (I know it was Michael - it had a sign naming it for those short on imagination, and a big painted Olympic ring logo. Never mind that it was a straw dummy dressed in what I think was an old wetsuit, it was kinda cute.) There are also, of course, the last of the summer's round of garage sales, yard sales, and estate sales with signs scattered all over. You'd think half of this town was trying to unload all the tat, baked goods and knicknacks they could lay their hands on to the other half, and you'd be about right. Give it a couple of weeks to a month and these will all have become Holiday Festivals, Christmas Bazaars and every other thing they can think of to sell whatever's left over (plus new bits, to be fair) in the name of gift giving. I shouldn't mock - this may be my best chance for finding *something* for my parents that's not a giftbox of chocolates again.
Today I went to the farmer's market, as I have all summer, and found that this is apparently The Weekend of the Fall Festival. I passed signs for or saw preparations for Fall Festivals, Harvest Festivals, Pumpkin Fair and Bakesale, Crabapple Fest, Fall Hay Rides, and the Scarecrow Festival, which is in fact being set up right by the farmer's market - clever of someone. As part of the Scarecrow Festival elementary school kids yearly make and decorate bunches of scarecrows and put them up, with signs, along Main Street. This year, among others, we have the Statue of Liberty, Miss America, and Michael Phelps. (I know it was Michael - it had a sign naming it for those short on imagination, and a big painted Olympic ring logo. Never mind that it was a straw dummy dressed in what I think was an old wetsuit, it was kinda cute.) There are also, of course, the last of the summer's round of garage sales, yard sales, and estate sales with signs scattered all over. You'd think half of this town was trying to unload all the tat, baked goods and knicknacks they could lay their hands on to the other half, and you'd be about right. Give it a couple of weeks to a month and these will all have become Holiday Festivals, Christmas Bazaars and every other thing they can think of to sell whatever's left over (plus new bits, to be fair) in the name of gift giving. I shouldn't mock - this may be my best chance for finding *something* for my parents that's not a giftbox of chocolates again.
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