Union Fair/The Maine Wild Blueberry Festival

I’m not one for crowds or carnival rides or the midway when it comes to county fairs but I’m always game for walking the barns and watching kids show off the animals they have been grooming for this annual event, the Union Fair and Wild Blueberry Festival.  As advertised, “….. The fair is a major hub of 4-H activity.  There are beef shows, dairy shows, dairy goat shows, horse shoes, rabbit shows, sheep shows, working steer shows, and even small domestic animal shows.”  What’s not to love! 

And of course, one must feast upon their famous blueberry pies!

This week’s theme is ‘circles’ and it seemed fitting to use one of the fair’s rides to illustrate the theme.  As I looked around, it seemed that all the rides seem to go in some sort of circle, around and around and around they go.  And then there were the pies … baskets full of freshly baked single serve round pies waiting to be devoured!  And they were free!!  Sigh ~~~ I love Maine’s Union Fair and Festival.