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| Fireworks from Mayfield Days |
I am thankful for community events.
While I live in a town, I really live very much in suburbia. You know how it works--spreading population around cities makes individual towns part of their sprawl. That's how it is here. However, there was a time when this area was out in the country and many remember the trips they took to here to eat at a famous ice cream stand. Luckily, the community tries hard to maintain its identity and small town feel. Some of those efforts include the local FFA farmers market, an old fashioned fair in the fall, and Mayfield Days in the summer . We celebrated Mayfield Days this past weekend.
They started with a parade and fireworks on Friday evening. Followed by all kinds of events sponsored by various businesses and organizations on Saturday. Even though it was very hot, a good time was had by all. For these events and the people who organize them I am thankful.
(Because you can take the girl out of the small town, but you can't take the small town out of the girl.) :)
A few pictures from Mayfield* Days.
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| The library staff marches in the parade every year. Here we were at our line up spot with some of the signs we later carried in the parade. Even though the parade was in the evening, the temperatures were still above 90. I got pretty hot. |
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| The next day, among other things, there was a car show. While I'm not much into cars, I did find this exhibit interesting. This is part of a tree that grew up through a truck. After 36 years the tree had totally grown into the truck and they had to cut both the truck and tree to clear the area. This shows some the parts the tree grew around and into. Ward wants you to notice the truck's transmission and truck frame in this picture. |
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| In conjunction with an exhibit at the local museum, the library sponsored a version of the Antique's Road Show. I took these two Civil War cannon balls for appraisal. While the appraiser didn't have any ideas about these, I had a good time seeing the others things people were bringing in. The best was hearing the stories about where they got their items. |
*Not the real name of the town, but keeping in line with Leave it to Beaver aliases.
"Ward wants you to notice the truck's transmission and truck frame in this picture." Oh, that line made me laugh out loud. Because I, like many of your female readers I'm sure, couldn't tell a transmission from a hole in the ground. But the tree grown around the metal is certainly interesting, and I'll take Ward's word for it that we're looking at a transmission. :-)
ReplyDeleteHe thought it was important to include that information, so I did, realizing those details were not important to many who frequent here.
DeleteI had thoughts along similar lines as Cat! Really interesting, how the tree and truck became one.
DeleteDo you display your cannon balls as a conversation piece in your home? I would love to go to an Antiques Road Show event sometime.
I just think it's funny how so many men in this culture have a totally different view of cars than most of the women that I know. Seriously, CatMan can tell you the make and model of pretty much ANY car produced between 1950 and 1970, but to me they all look exactly alike. Of course, I'm sure he finds it equally funny that I can usually tell what variety of vinegar was used in a recipe just by tasting it. It just all makes me chuckle.
DeleteWard is not really into cars, but he can tell you most makes and models. He can do that with airplanes also. I can identify very few of with either.
DeleteI don't display the cannon balls, but I think they are cool all the same. I have a friend who lives in a house from Civil War times and they have dug up a lot of artifacts on their properties. She gave these cannon ball to Wally and Theo when they were younger.
DeleteI looked at the tree and could make out car parts but have no idea what parts I was seeing. Now I know at least some part of the parts is the transmission! I am quite comfortable only knowing how to take my car to the mechanic get a quote and decide if it is worth my time taking it to another shop for a second quote. (And yes, sometimes I do)
ReplyDeleteWe're lucky that we have found reasonable and reliable mechanics that we trust completely. They are talking about retirement in a few years and we're already panicking. They can't stop working until we stop driving.
DeleteThe tree stump meshed into a hybrid of sorts, tree/machine could become some sort of sci fi movie, the truck that didn't want to die sort of genre. It's awesome, love it! I miss living rural, not closely packed into a concrete car freeway town. It's good your suburb tries to claim still some ID.
ReplyDeleteYou are probably the person commenting here who can identify the truck parts because of all of the work you do on your car.
DeleteWe don't have to go far to get to the concrete freeway town. That's why I appreciate the efforts of the community here.
I too was a small town girl and prefer small towns for the community activities and lack of traffic :-) Unfortunately, the small town I've adopted has no activities unless you count bingo nights at the senior center open to the public.
ReplyDeleteUnlike Cat and a few others, I loved working on cars and spotted the transmission and frame parts right off. I absolutely love that tree because it represents just how resilient nature can be.
You know that's the first thing I thought when I saw the picture of the tree "eating" the truck--how powerful and resilient nature is.
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