The Meaford Fall Fair

Saturday was the Meaford Fall Fair here in town so I went down after lunch to look at the displays.  Fall fairs started in the mid to late 1800s here, as gatherings where farmers could show their animals and share ideas.  Winning farm entries had a chance to end up at the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto, which we used to enjoy attending.

The sports teams at our local school are named the Thunder, as you can see, but it's a Kindergarten to Grade 12 school, so there are lots of younger kids who submit entries for display at the fair.  I suspect this was a class project.

There were lots of drawings posted, but I picked this one simply because I liked it.

And this one reminded me of a similar sized ladybug we have in the garden, quite well done I thought.

Not too far away were the quilts, and this one really stood out.  Having watched Mrs. F.G. quilt for years I know the effort that goes into these.  And that was a thought that ran through my mind repeatedly - regardless of the final product, a lot of people put a great deal of effort into all the entries here at the fair.  The complexity of this quilt, with lots of triangular shapes, would have made it a serious challenge!

Other quilts were based on illustrations like this one.  Embroidery like this is a time-consuming task!

There's something about this pattern that just draws my eye.  The longer I look at it the more mesmerized I become.

This is just a small corner of the photography entries, which I thought were very good.  A few years back I entered several photos in the Markdals Fall Fair before we moved to Meaford.

Then there were the flowers.  I counted about 60 entries, of which these two appealed to me.  It was hard to get photos though because they were all so close together, and there were people in the background.  Tomorrow some veggies, cars and birds.