The Giant Pumpkin Festival - Part 2

I was attending the Giant Pumpkin Festival at the St. Lawrence County fairgrounds in Gouverneur, New York (see Part 1, posted yesterday) and walking along a row of vendors:

There were handcrafted birdhouses and other wood crafts:

Signs and wooden pumpkin boxes:

And of course - more pumpkins. No giants yet, though:

I walked over to see the crane which would drop the giant pumpkin (filled with numbered golf balls) at 3:00. I wouldn't be there long enough to see it drop, though:

I walked by the chicken barbecue. It sure smelled good!

And then I entered the barn with the giant pumpkins. There were a few, but that's when I realized I shouldn't have arrived on the morning of opening day because many of the giant pumpkins hadn't yet arrived. But there were some, so I walked around to see them:

Outside the barn, a big (but certainly not giant) pumpkin had just arrived and was being unloaded and tagged with the grower's name:

A forklift hauled the pumpkins into the barn:

These were some seriously big pumpkins and I'd sure be proud to have grown one of them. But I missed seeing the super-giants, which hadn't yet arrived:

Well, these two were pretty darn big, but there were surely much bigger ones coming:

I didn't stay long, but I enjoyed the rural geniality. Next year I'll go later in the day: