I spent the afternoon at Von Thun’s Country Farm for its fall festival. It was a beatiful day with the sun up and the heat beating heavy on my black Mets sweatshirt (I had no idea it would be as warm as it was or I never would have worn something like that).
There were some strange sights — a goat on the roof of a small building, for instance (see photos) — and plenty of stuff for the kids (we were with my brother and sister-in-law and their kids). We grabbed some food and my nephew Joey did the obligatory sand and candy art (pictured with my wife Annie), while his younger brother Daniel spent a whole lot of time playing with the trucks in the sand box (see top photo).
And I spent about half an hour chasing the two of them through the hay maze, which inflamed my allergies but made the two of them quite happy.
It was a good time, though it is a bit sad to realize that this is what suburban farms have been reduced to. Von Thun’s, like most farms, have turned to different methods of agriculture (greenhouses that produce plants for contractors, for instance) and what they have called in the past recreational events. The farm is open to the public, a bit of a museum piece.
That’s OK, though. They are open and green and that’s all that really matters
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