Karen's new hobby: Scrapbooking!

Frankie's brownstone

"I could give you such a smack!"

Karen's house

Shutter

Bird bath with petrified bird

Little Red Riding Sean

Our lovely tour guide

Cute bunny: brown

Cute bunny: white (or as we like to call him, #208)

Cute bunny: black

Sunday afternoon at the Fair

The winner: 1253 lbs!

Bountiful harvest (Market pack winners)

And these AREN'T the giant pumpkins!

I'm so lonesome

The cutest mutton you've ever seen

Now strut

Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!

Newly alive, not newly dead -- I swear!

Gardening display

Have we really been doing this for 16 years?

The clowning Wallenda

The galloping Wallendas

A swinging Wallenda (Aurelia!)

A bowing Wallenda

A juggling Wallenda (Alesandro)

A barking Wallenda

The Flying Wallendas

You couldn't pay me enough...

Ashia on the balance beam

Like Erma said, the grass is always greener over the septic tank

Flower displays (only a week old...)

Pod (people?)

Big smiles at the fair

The Flower Building

This fair has EVERYTHING!

She's a rock star!

Sean and his friend Nathan

Tradition!

Blatts!

Aladdin, is that you?

Show-off

A traditional New England emu

Terrifying children since 1962

Punkin Dee-lux

Ironworks

Insufficiently cute pandas are often sold to the carnies

Kiddieland

Sand sculpture

Crushed velvet

Moooo!

Cruella never even dreamed of this

Good old-fashioned traditional cows

Looking for Charlotte

Sunset at the Fair

From the top of the Superslide

Bill tries not to think about heights

Not the steadiest Ferris wheel in the world

Bill's only ride that day

Big horses, little barrels

Bill's prize: Larry the lobster!

Larry says, "Bye bye!"

Buddies

Roger Conant (and he's one of the GOOD guys!)

Some museum somewhere

Nothing like Halloween in Salem

Conant's plaque

Strolling through Salem

Hold your breath!

The Salem Witch Memorial

Rebecca Nurse: convicted witch

She'd be 388 years old today

A family plot

The mortal remains of Simon Bradstreet, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

So peaceful (in the daytime...)

Sean, up a creek without a paddle

A Fair to Remember