Kids were having fun at the fair today, both the two-legged and four-legged kids. The kid goats like to climb up on everything including gates, feed pans and boxes and king of the hill is a favorite pastime.
Kid At Play
Watch the kid goat playing king on the hill.
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Some of the exhibits at the fair are a bit noisier than others, especially when a bunch of roosters get crowing all at the same time. And this guy doesn’t look too thrilled to be at the fair either.
Feathers at the Fair
Various sounds and smells can be found during summer weeks at county fairs, from the squeals emitting from the carnival rides or from the livestock barns plus the aroma of fair foods. At my local county fair, various judging occurred today including sheep and goats, and these critters are taking an earned rest afterwards.
Suffolk Sheep
Other array of colors are also being displayed besides the yellow and white summertime flowers, like this patch of pink phlox.
Patch of Pink
The Goldenrod Crab Spider could pick either white or yellow blossoms in this patch of wildflowers for its hunting ground.
Yellow and White
My face encountered several spider webs while I was mowing lawn today but not all spiders build webs as some just lie in wait for lunch to wander into their hunting range. The Goldenrod Crab Spider will their color to yellow or white, depending on which flower they are hunting so they are often on daisies, sunflowers, and goldenrod. These spiders change color by secreting a liquid yellow pigment into the outer cell layer of the body but the process is not a quick change as it take 10 to 25 days to go from white to yellow but the opposite color change takes about six days. Since the daises are fading as summer rolls on, I imagine most are changing to yellow to match the later summer flowers.
Waiting to Attack
The grass in the ditches have grown tall in the hot and wet summer, which help hide the deer and other critters waiting to run out in front the of car, but the grass stems look pretty in the rays of the setting sun.
Sunset Grass
Sunflower seed heads may have spirals which are always a Fibonacci number, but even though the spirals found in big round bales of hay don’t have the mathematical uniqueness, to me they are still interesting to look at.
Spirals of Hay
The spider may have caught a fly in its web but the web silks also collected some dewdrops on a misty day. The term cobweb typically means an abandoned web whereas a spider web implies an active web, like this one where the spider is still trapping insects for lunch.
A Dewy Web
The high dew point and temperature made it feel rather hot today but the ditches weren’t burning even though some were looked like they were flaming orange. The blazing color of the Michigan Lilies are dotting some of the road ditches during the hot summer days.
Blaze Orange
