Sunflowers and Sunsets!

Hi, everyone!

Grandma took me to the sunflower festival at Wickham Farms! That happens every August and I really like to go! The sunflowers grow on fields up the hill. We get a ride on a wagon pulled by a tractor to get there. There’s a border of blooming zinnias around the sunflowers, so I get to make lots of flower friends!

Grandma took me to Wickham Farms for the sunflower festival!
We got a wagon ride to the sunflower fields on the hill!
I made some zinnia friends, too!

We’ve been having very dry weather, so the sunflower fields didn’t have quite as many blossoms as other years. I made lots of friends, though. There were lots of different varieties of sunflower growing!

There were a lot of sunflowers in bloom!
Some of the sunflowers had very big seed heads!
This sunflower had a strange shape!
Do you think this sunflower looks like me?
Sunflowers come in all sizes …
… and many shades of yellow!
A trio of new friends!
This is my favorite sunflower color!
More of my favorite color of sunflower!

Wickham Farms has set up special places to take pictures with the sunflowers. I liked the heart outline and the bathtub! There’s an overlook set up, too! I climbed the stairs so I could look out over all the fields of sunflowers!

My photo op at the heart-shaped cutout!
My photo op with the bathtub!
I climbed the steps to the overlook platform!
I made it to the top!
Here’s what I could see from the overlook!

After we visited the sunflowers, Grandma and I walked back down to the farm buildings. It’s been so dry, there was a fire hose set up to water the fields! We stopped to see the zinnias again. There was a tent with cut flowers for sale. I saw a corn field and a pumpkin patch, too!

It’s been so dry, the farmers were using fire hose to water the plants!
More zinnias!
There were all kinds of cut flowers for sale!
I saw corn on the road back down!
There were pumpkins, too!

There’s a big playground near the farm buildings! I went on the zip line and tried to pull a tractor all by myself! I liked the bounce pad! The singing tractor and I got to be friends right away! The farm serves food during the festival, but James and Thomas wouldn’t be happy about the daytime choices!

I took a ride on the zip line!
Then I tried the tractor pull!
There was a bounce pad, too!
My new friend sings a song!
James and Thomas wouldn’t be happy about that!
This cow gives catsup and mustard!

Two days after I visited the sunflowers, Grandma and Grandpa took me to Sodus Point for sunset again. Sunset was hazy as usual, but there was something new going on! There was a big barge moored by the east breakwall getting ready to do repairs. In the channel, another big barge was dredging up mud so bigger boats could go in and out of the bay!

We’re still getting wildfire smoke in our sunsets!
There was a lot of low haze!
There’s a barge at the channel repairing the breakwall!
The dredge is working in the channel, too!

The next day was really cloudy and windy! We had a steady north wind all day! By evening, the wind had blown the clouds and haze just enough south for us to see sunset from the Point again. It was very pretty!

The north wind blew away the haze and pushed the clouds south!
That gave us a pretty sunset …
… and pretty colors in the sky afterwards!

We ran out of chocolate chip cookies at the bay! When we got back to Fairport, Grandma and Grandpa made another ten dozen! I don’t think we’ll run out again any time soon! Last Friday, we got to see sunset at the Point again. This time the lake was very calm. The barges were still there and some of the haze was back.

Time to make more chocolate chip cookies!
Calm winds and some haze again!
The breakwall repair barge again!
The dredge was still working, too!
The sky after sunset!

I got some exciting news from Aunt Emi! One of my pride has started college with Bill! I hope they have a great year together!

One of my pride has started college!

Love,

Lion-san