When I fell upon the festivities at Burnham Orchards in Berlin Heights, it was more-or-less by mistake.
The weekend before, I was just stopping by for some produce when I noticed all these people crossing Route 113 and heading toward the orchard. A woman was singing to a small audience and things looked pretty lively.
But since I couldn’t stay long on that day, I decided to return this weekend…
…and this vendor selling Glow Sticks and other Halloween things…
…I regretted not staying the weekend before.
…but as you can see…
…they definitely favored the younger kids…
…probably so that their parents could have some time to put pumpkins in their cart.
…like water pump racing and scarecrow making…
…they did have this cool game where three balls hovered in the air and you tried to knock them off the air stream.
Here’s that hovering ball – in case you couldn’t see it.
I actually wanted to try out the game, but I thought I would look weird playing a kid’s game, so I eventually retreated…
..and hung out with the peacocks, golden pheasants…
…ducks, geese and turkeys.
Well, this and the corn maze advertised in the flier.
…finding myself between the exit and this hayride line…
…it didn’t occur to me that I hadn’t seen the corn maze.
But still I ask myself, for a maze that big, how it possible that I missed it entirely?