280/365 Senior Picture

Today was Senior Picture day. All seniors gathered together to spell out "2010" for their class picture. It was a bright, clear and hot day and they had a pretty good time.

I also managed to capture this while trying to capture the kids.

279/365 Garden

I've got a new lovely plant - Florida Sunset.

I also finally transplanted my avocados to larger pots. Since we are renting here, I'm not ready to put them in the ground. But they were totally ready for a larger space. They finally got it!

278/365

These photos were taken by one of my photography club students of the Lower School kids at recess.

After care kids having some indoor time

Waiting for mom and dad to come

277/365 Fall at the Cabbage Patch

A quick trip to Kim's Cabbage Patch brought us some lovely glimpses of fall.

Tons of pumpkins and decorations

Since Dad wouldn't play along - Mom and her new husband.

Corn plants

Lovely mums

276/365 A fall day

What a BUSY day! We spent the morning at a corn maze. Being a Miami girl - this was a first for me. I'd seen such things on TV, but never seen one in real life. But there are a few nearby, so we decided to head over and check it out.

Let me just say - if you have never done this, you must give it a try! It was so much fun! Hot and sweaty, but very fun! We went to Long and Scott's Farm in Zellwood - I highly recommend them.

http://www.longandscottfarms.com/maze_adventures.html

Here mom and I are waiting for our video to show us how to not get lost.

Yes, those are 3D glasses. They had a whole puzzle element to go along with the maze.

The entrance to the maze area

Mom and I walked through the tunnel.

Matt went down the 60 foot slide. Yes, seriously.

Then went got a glimpse of the maze itself.

Look at that poster. The top is the big maze, 6 or 7 acres. Takes more than an hour to get through - and that is for the people who work there and know which way to go.

The bottom right corner is the kiddie maze - only one way in and out and it goes in a wheel pattern. They said it would only take 15 minutes - so Mom and I decided that was the one for us.

Entrance to the kiddie maze

Matt went into the big maze!

Here are pictures from the tower bridge in the kiddie maze over looking both mazes.

View from inside the maze

You can see that even in the kiddie maze - the corn is up over our heads!

When we finished (30 plus minutes later) we headed over the shaded farmers market to wait for Matt.

Mom

Me

When we finished that adventure, we headed over the the Winter Garden Musical Festival. It's a huge street festival going on for three blocks in downtown Winter Garden. We caught a preview of Plaid Forever and discovered our friend David Foust was playing with them!

After enjoying the music, we wandered around and explored the displays.

We found a vendor selling nothing but Dad shirts! For those of you who don't know what a Dad shirt is - think loud, bright, obnoxious and Hawaiian style. My dad loves them and can be found haunting Goodwill for shirts that others have deemed unwearable.

Matt's reaction

Mom realizing that she will be going home with new Dad shirts

After leaving the festival, we explored a little. We saw this guy on the way

We also explored a small cemetery. It's in Oakland, Florida and you get to it by taking a sharp turn off the road nearly down hill. No roads, no parking lot - not even a dirt road. But some of the graves are very new.

I discovered the children's section - heart breaking.