fair | Change Is Hard

July 8, 2013
by dawnkinster 17 Comments

Activity after

Pretty

Sunday my sister and aunt and I picked cherries at a local orchard. This is the place my family has picked cherries ever since we were little kids. So in a way it was nostalgic to be there…

Picking

…but in a way not so much as they have planted new trees since we were kids and this weekend we were picking at the new location. The picking was sparse but we got enough cherries to freeze a few and make a pie.

Future pies

Then Sunday evening husband, sister and I went to the county fair…

Crazy

…where we walked around analyzing the rides, trying to decide if there was one I could go on without getting sick.

Crazy

We wandered around, standing in front of each ride…

Fun times

….and concluded that perhaps the ferris wheel was the only safe bet.

Fun

So we bought tickets and boarded the ride. Which was when I suddenly realized I was really sore from my Saturday morning run. I had a really really hard time stepping up into the gondola…

On the ferris wheel

…and an even harder time getting out after our ride! So even though I was feeling pretty good since that run and a bit surprised that I hadn’t felt any soreness I apparently had forgotten that I am usually most sore two days after a run, which means….that this morning, Monday, I could barely get out of bed. Yea. Now I remember what it’s like to be a runner.

It’s darn wonderful.

Sisters at the fair

August 24, 2011
by dawnkinster 18 Comments

The color of summer – photo challenge

Karma has issued her August photo challenge. This time it is all about color. In fact our assignment was to find all the colors of the rainbow represented in summer fun.

We have lots of summer color around here, so I’m taking you on three different photo tours. It’s difficult to choose just one photo for each color, so I’m splurging on three categories!

First is the county fair. I went to the fair specifically to find the colors of the rainbow. Some of you have seen many of my fair photos; I posted them shortly after I was there. But I saved the photos here just for this challenge.

Second is our own garden. After I read the challenge I realized that all the colors of the rainbow were right here at home.

Third is an annual event that occurs here every August called the Woodward Dream Cruise. People from all over the country converge on our county and drive their antique and muscle cars up and down miles and miles of Woodward Ave, just like teenagers used to cruise Woodward in the 50’s. It’s a huge event and there are beautiful cars on display for miles. I’ll show you just a few. I found that I was more interested in the art of pieces of vehicles than the whole car or truck. So mostly you’ll see pieces of them here.

Red