FAIR TIME!

Last Sunday evening our family went to the fair!

This was Keller Bugs first time!

We had a blast! Can you tell?

ZZ got the first ride with Keller on the Bee!

According to Keller, it was Barry the Bee!

Just wait til you see her Halloween costume

Keller's, not Lindsays!

She still talks about the ferris wheel! 

How high up with the stars we were!

And the pony named Barney!

All she wanted was corndogs ...

but the funnel cake was a winner too!

Poppa is hot on her heels!

Looks like an "I'm gonna get you"

moment about to happen!

And the Carousel that swooshed at Mach 5

as if we were in a Nascar race.

I'm just glad she wanted to sit this one out

'cause I might have gotten slung across the fairgrounds.

And the ice-cream! 

Pineapple Whip Soft Serve in a cone! 

High Yum Factor!

The annual fair marks the anniversary of my first date

 with my dear husband ... 33 years ago!

Though we try to go every year for nostalgic reasons,

I confess we have succumed to letting the kids go

while we stay home and eat corndogs

by twinkling lights strung up

in the ceiling of the man-cave.  Yep!

The romance is still there!  What can I say?!

~

All Photographs were taken by my daughter,

Jennifer.  Check out other great photography on

 Jennifer's Blog as well as at Soulshine Gallery!

Another Carnival Season has Passed.

"Carnival" (watercolor)
http://www.tkellerart.com/

Another fair season has passed. I drove down Airport Boulevard this morning alongside a couple of trucks with a colorful array of disassembled carnival rides piled to the clouds. I missed the fair again this year. Missed it last year too. I probably shouldn't use the word 'missed' cause it was by choice. First time since, hmmm, I was a child. It was a sentimental event for me cause my first date with my husband was at the Greater Gulf States Fair. Come to think of it, our second date was to the fair as well! Nothing like fair corndogs! The image I've posted is a watercolor from a picture taken on our last trip with some dear friends and family. Had a blast! Now that our children are old enough to go without us, it's lost it's thrill. Perhaps when my grandaughter is old enough to enjoy it I'll go back. I love seeing the county fairs portrayed on old movies with the cattle judging and preserves and pies. There's still a good bit of that these days, but it's still not the same as seen on TV. I haven't ridden any of the rides in a long time. That old song says 'tequila makes her clothes fall off' and I'm here to say some of those rides almost do the same!