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Taking another easy day for myself, so, let's see whether images are working at all today. Some more of the Calhoun County Fair:
(Gasps!) The Insult Comic Horse!
Now that's a horse that earned a lot of ribbons. Must be Li'l Sebastian or something.
Quick look outside the barns as the night rolls in and wants us to think it'll rain. (It didn't.)
You can see the midway in the far distance, yes, but you can also see a star breaking off the American Flag in the lower right corner and going into business for itself!
Cow, wondering if I have a reason for being here exactly?
Pig wondering how they got a reputation for being dirty when, you can see, this is a very clean stall.
Back to the midway, after sunset but before the sky is completely dark.
Silver Streak now has a huge line, but it's still one the ride can take in like one or two ride cycles.
The Scooter is the bumper car ride, and the swings are just what you'd think. The Ferris wheel is looking great illuminated like that.
This Silver Streak passed so many ride inspections in 2019, four years before this photo was taken.
This just-off-the-ride picture of Silver Streak is poorly focused, yes, but I like it for looking so candid.
Here's the ride in-between loading cycles and in better light. Looks more staged than the previous picture, doesn't it?
Trivia: In 1924 the United States Bureau of Biological Survey launched an all-out effort to eradicate coyotes, hawks, and other predators from Kern County, California. By 1926 a report on the town of Taft said, ``the mice invaded beds and nibbled the hair of horrified sleepers, chewed through the sides of wooden storehouses to get at food supplies, and crawled boldly into children's desks at Conley School''. Source: Down To Earth: Nature's Role in American History, Ted Steinberg.
Currently Reading: Deck Us All With Boston Charlie, Walt Kelly.
