Beth Skwarecki

Science & Miscellanea blog

at the fair
We went to the state fair.

say cheese


There were chickens ...

chicken


... and even multicolored chickens ...

I can't see you, but I'll groom you anyway.


... but my favorite hairdos were on the ducks.

foofyhead


When chickens have ridiculous multi-colored hairdos, they really look the part. Like, "I'm a rock star!" or "I'm a clown!" But the ducks don't really get into the character. They're like "I'm a duck." A duck with a great hairdo, that is.

I caught a sheep mid-baa:

b-a-a-a-a-a!


and some pigs during their nap:

sleepy pigs


These guys were really rocking their harmonicas

The Harmonicats


and these seals were trained to plop their heads on anybody who posed for a picture.

your picture with a sea lion!


I can't forget the butter sculpture

butter sculpture


but most amazing of all is the tiny state fair inside the state fair.

recursive state fair


I looked, but I couldn't find a tinier state fair inside of it.

More photos are here. The state fair website is here, but you can't see it for yourself until next year.
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This is a comment for the neat spider post (time for posting comments expired), those are actually 2 different spiders, one is wolf as you correctly pointed, and the other one is a "blak widow" family carcase courtesy or your friend the wolf spider :D
10.21.2007 1:35am
Carrie (mail):
I stumbled onto your blog b/c I was looking for photos of the mice cube. As soon as I saw the multi-colored chickens I knew it must be the NYS fair.... Then when I saw the butter sculpture I knew it was the fair. I didn't get to go this year and now I'm disappointed I didn't. That's the best butter sculpture I've seen in 4-5 years.
10.23.2007 12:00am

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