Fall Festival - Gaithersburg, Maryland

Last weekend we attended a fall festival in Catonsville, Md but did not get to take in the whole thing because my mom whose 93 wasn't up to all the walking involved.  We had a good time anyway so decided to see what festivals were happening this past weekend and discovered the 31st Annual Olde Towne Gaithersburg Fair.

The railroad cuts right through the center of the town of Gaithersburg with an at grade crossing.  It's a popular spot to catch the MARC trains to Washington, DC.  While we were there three freight trains came through blowing their whistles.  There's a railroad museum and old trains to look through.

The festival was very kid oriented.

There were an assortment of food trucks and we enjoyed BBQ from this one.

Several stages had bands or dancers performing.  I'm not sure what Latin American country these were from but they were very energetic.

Armed Forces were recruiting.

Lots of children were walking around with balloon animals thanks to this gentleman hard at work here.

A Sunday for towns folk to get out and mingle and that's what they were doing in Gaithersburg.

OWT

Harvest Monday

Beans and more beans!

The last ripe tomatoes for awhile and some peppers.

The garden was a jumble of weeds and dying tomato plants until I cleaned it up last week.

Looking much better here.

And here.

Spinach, lettuce, bok choy planted under the netting.

A Cherokee purple - will it ripen on the vine?

A lone cucumber, picked later in the week.

Basil the best its ever grown for me.

See what other gardeners have harvested at Daphne's Dandelions.

Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day

Joining GBBD at May Dreams Gardens

 OWT

Remembering Dad on His Birthday

Today would have been my Dad's 94th birthday.

Here he is as a teenager (on the far right) some time in the early 1930s.  He was the sixth of nine children of Omar and Ada Buchwalter of Lancaster, PA. One daughter died in infancy and the other daughter, my Aunt Beulah is not pictured because she was serving as a missionary in Africa at the time of this photo.

I obtained this photo at the memorial service on Saturday of my Aunt Verna (far left) who was the last surviving sibling at her death in August.

 He lived to be 89 and died two days after my Mom's 89th birthday.   

On Friday they would have been married 72 years.

He is remembered with much love.

Addendum:  My sister Bonnie sent this photo of my parents taken three months before they were married.