MY FENCES THIS WEEK

This interesting building is in Duck, North Carolina.  It is an old life saving station.  I saw the fences, so here it is.  

 We are on our way home now.  I liked the sign but more importantly, it has the fence.

 The last three photos were taken of a farm, all from the passenger seat as we were driving by.  I take a lot of my photos with a cell phone now.

 A lot of fencing around here.

I am linking to Fences Around the World.  Thank you for hosting Gosia.  

If you would like to see others from around the world, or join in with your own, you can go here.  

Thank you for visiting everyone and have a great day.

LAST OF THE PHOTOS FROM FRYING PAN PARK

at least until the next time we go there.

There is a small carousel ride near the general store.  

It looks quite old but with age comes character.  I can imagine when it gets dark and all the lights are turned on, with the music playing, it turns into a magical ride.

It is a 1920's Hirschhorn carousel and went under extensive restoration during the winter and spring this year.

After looking at the carousel and all the animals that you've seen in my previous posts, we walked down to the visitor center.  It was at the end of this long road, with two large fields on either side.  We passed another entrance on our way to the farm that takes you directly to the center, and you can park there also.   

Events are held here. We saw a large birthday party going on in one of the rooms, but the museum side was still open.

It was very interesting to see the old photos.

I will add the small captions I found at the side of each photo.  Above it read:

"The Championship Team of Floris Vocational High School, 1924-1925.

"The Floris Home Demonstration Club won the County Championship for most effective club in 1930."

"The community has a picnic dinner after a soybean meeting on better methods for soybean production."

"Playtime on the farm."

"Kids aboard the Cockerill family's mule before the day's plowing began."

The display above shows parts of farming life with old photos, a couple of which I shared in this post. On the door is a list of chores for children on the farm at various ages. 

A closer look at those chores.

and under the pinafore was an old cookbook open to the pages shown below."

More displays showing its dairy farm heritage.

Winding down our outing, the last thing we did was go to the general store.  I liked the old door knocker.

Inside Gregg is deciding on what he is going to purchase.  We came away with bread and butter pickles for Gregg and a blueberry flower honey for me.

This horse print caught my attention also.

A close-up.

I am finishing off with a collage of several animals we saw that day, some you have seen in my other posts.  

And that was our very enjoyable outing to Frying Pan Park.  To family and friends old and new, thank you for taking the time to visit and look at my posts.

NOW THAT WE ARE OFFICIALLY INTO THE AUTUMN....

I am sharing a farmer's market shop owned by Whitehall Farm, link here.  We were there two weeks ago.

It is not exactly around the corner, otherwise we would be there all the time.  On the way we passed these cyclists enjoying the sunshine.

A great day for a bike ride.

Twenty minutes or so later we were pulling into the parking lot.  We started out very early and it was during the week.  No other cars. It is closed Monday and Tuesday, and it crossed my mind that it was closed when we arrived.  But it was just very quiet.

They have a Fall Festival and I believe this is one of the hayride wagons.

Inside the store it had a light and cheery air.  I liked the fall decorations and enjoyed browsing over all the items we could purchase.

We bought fresh tomatoes, a bag of onions, a baguette, bread and butter pickles which was Gregg's choice, a jar of honey, my choice, and dark chocolate covered coffee beans, also my choice.  Quite a varied collection.

I first discovered how much I liked chocolate covered coffee beans at a coffee shop in one of our strip malls ages ago.  They always placed three on the side of my coffee cup, but stopped the practice several months ago.  "What?", I said, "No more chocolate covered coffee beans?"  Now whenever I come across them it is a special treat.  I do the same as the coffee shop, and eat two or three beans with my morning cup of coffee.  Zips me right through the day!

Time to go back and get more!

There were many things that interested us in this shop, the olive oil for instance.  They had all kinds of different flavors.

I asked if I could take a few photos and they readily agreed.  The decorations were very festive.

It's beginning to feel like Fall.

What are your favorite Autumn things? Here are some of mine.

Sweater weather and Homemade soup

Hot Apple Cider and Hot Chocolate

Sitting by the fire

That feeling of drawing in 

your breath on a crisp day

Walks in the evenings and

smelling wood smoke from

the neighbors' chimneys

Walking on crunchy leaves

while walking through the woods

Seeing all the pumpkins

Carved pumpkins too

The first Fall Mums on sale

To name a few...

 and wishing all my friends