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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
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!
Love,
Lion-san