Cotton candy anyone? Used to love this stuff as a kid and then had some a few years ago and thought it disgusting. I think when I was little I was mesmerized by the man with the cardboard stick twirling it around making a nice fluffy sugar treat. I can't imagine just buying a bag of cotton candy that they don't make in front of you! So what was your favorite fairground food? Cotton candy, candy apples those weird hot dogs on a stick thing-a-ma-jigs? Is that a corn dog?
These next two shots were my attempt at being artistic. Well, they're gaudy but that's about it.
Maybe I should just stick with flowers. I can never remember the name of this flower. It's something like columbine but for some reason I have always called it the Tractor flower. Have no clue why. Started calling it that when I was little and now of course that's the name that always pops into my head.
A blue poppy!
This one's for Evelyne. She was talking about flowers with bees. Ever since I have taken a gazillion shots of flowers with bees, all of them fuzzy and out of focus. This was the first one that I managed to actually get the bee where you can actually tell what it is.
Sadly, my favorite bird is going to be a whole lot more scare nowadays. The eagles swooped into their nests and stole all their eggs. The herons have vacated their nests and scientists when that happens they never return. The blue heron is an endangered species so the loss of the eggs is particularly devastating.
Well, that was kind of a sad way to end a post.
Hope everyone is having themselves a great weekend.
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How sad about the herons. I didn't realise that they were so dependent on their nests. No wonder they are endangered.
I never realized until you started listing them that I never liked most fair food, not cotton candy, not candy apples, not corn dogs.
I DO like those little mini doughnuts! And kettle corn! Which is a salty and sweetish popcorn.
Barbara: Oh,I forgot about the mini doughnuts! I do like those. Again, I think in part because I loved to watch the dough go through the machine,down the ramp and plopping into the oil.
Herons are the business!
My favourite fairground food? Hamburgers with loads of onions and all three sauces, tomato, brown and mustard. (Brown sauce might be a British thing; it's quite sweet and spicy.)
The helterskerter pixx somehow remind me of the offices of Mode Magazine - do you watch Ugly Betty?
lovely pics as usual. hope your weekend was nice :)
I still think I could probably eat cotton candy, but I don't enjoy it nearly as much as I did when I was a kid. I never liked candy apples though, I hated how everything got stuck in your teeth!
I have no recollection of these mini doughnuts you and Barb speak of. I must investigate this!
I love the blue poppy flower picture...although your 'Flower Porn' caption is enters to mind whenever I see a photo now ;)
I saw so many blue herons here yesterday...but there were also two eagles. Maybe the herons were trying to ward them off? I didn't realize that either...I'll be watching the eagles more carefully.
Mini doughnuts were the only thing I'd eat at the fair that I can remember. Loved those (still do!).
Your pictures are great (as usual) and my favorite just happens to be the one with the ferris wheel.
Corn dogs - "They're meaty but sweaty"
This story about the Herons is really sad.
Thanks for posting those flower pictures, they are great. And yes, taking pictures of bees on a flower can be really hard
Gledwood, I think brown sauce is British alright but maybe it's kind of like what we call barbeque sauce. Don't really know. I haven't seen Ugly Betty because I work during it but I keep hearing rave reviews about it.
Boo, hope yours was too.
Allison, oh no, if I don't look out someone will be reporting me for objectionable content. Next time you are at a fair you've got to see if they have a mini-donut machine. They're great fun to watch.
Deb, I just love the blue herons so if they disappear from this area I will be ever so sad. They're so beautiful and majestic.
Dogga, I see corn dogs around all the time but I have never managed to get up the nerve to try one.
Evelyne, I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I started trying to get you a bee picture!
mini dough nuts! mini dough nuts! mini dough nuts!
we used to eat bannock all the time at the pne until the booth left. but every year a bunch of us go, and one of us will always bring up bannock.
668, is bannock kind of like whale tales? So what's your favorite ride? I'm all about the rollercoaster.
Yeah, it's summer fairground time, isn't it? ;-)
My daughter insisted on coton-candy Friday. The boys were the usual pizza... Not cheap, either. 5 9" pies and a couple drinks were over $50.
I like those waffle things, sprinkled with icecream and powdered sugar.
Cotton candy? What a disappointment. It was all air.
Love the poppy.
Herons? Too bad.
When I was a kid a few (endangered)Trumpeter swans took a rest in a pond on our farm.
The Chicago Trib sent out a photo crew to take pictures. (Maybe that explains my urge to get things published in the paper.) Ha.
Whitenoise, fair prices have gotten ridiculous. Maybe they always were but this year rides cost $5.00 for about a two minute thrill.
Busterp, all air but when I was little I thought it was spun magic.
I was just looking at that heron again... don't they look so aristocratic and superior with their enormously arching noses ~~ I mean beaks ...
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