Heritage Harvest Days
Water-cooled engine powering a reciprocating saw.(Click for more images (photo gallery retired)…)
After hearing about it from
Seven Ponds is a private, non-profit nature center, and Heritage Harvest Days is one of its fundraisers. The event consists of a number of people demonstrating their crafts, music, and a few people selling things. Admission is US$5, and it’s very worthwhile. There were lots of nifty things to look at, trails to wander, and it was just an all around good time.
Here are some highlight photos:
· Tractor-powered sawmill.
· Guys sitting on the tractors which are powering the sawmill.
· Studebaker Pickup Truck.
· Frustrated-looking magician after getting out of a straight jacket.
· Danielle in the herb garden.
· Hummingbird clearwing moth.
· A sheep named Piggy being sheared.
· Cute sheep!
· Goat with a cast on its leg! (It got caught in a fence…)
· Reciprocating saw powered by the engine pictured above.
· Corn on the cob being steamed in a barrel.
· Danielle eating corn on the cob.
· Lake, at the bottom of the hill behind the festival.
· Raccoon poop.
· Cute goat reaching under the fence for leaves.
Of course, the rest of the photos can be seen in the Heritage Harvest Days at Seven Ponds (photo gallery retired) album.
When looking through the gallery you might notice that things look a bit… better. In order to make the page look fuller and cut out some whitespace I set the thumbnails to fit within a bounding box of 300 x 300 (up from 150 x 150) and made the default resized images fit within an 800 x 800 box. Around 30% of visitors to the site are at 1024×768, and when tested on a monitor running IE at that resolution, things were still plenty usable. A little bit of scrolling to the right was required, but only maybe 20% of the screen wasn’t visible without scrolling. As almost all other users were using a resolution above 1024×768, this seems like a safe sizing.
I went through all of the photos – what a neat festival and location! I’ll be watching for the dates for it next year. And I really like how you changed up the thumbnails in the gallery, it looks very nice.
Finally, a note about that Vendetti’s place: they were in business on Mound just south of 23 Mile Road for probably 40 years (maybe more!) and have AWESOME food. They sold the place a couple of years ago and my family have been so disappointed that they weren’t around – the same owners opened that new place you saw, I have yet to go there but I am looking forward to it. But the spanky has always cracked me up name-wise. ;) It is delish, though too, it’s like a folded pizza or calzone. But my favorite from them is their baked mostachiolli. They also have great pizza. So if you decide to try it sometime, let me know what you think!
We’ll have to give it a go then… When Danielle and I pulled into the parking lot, two cars pulled in while I was taking the picture and drove slowly by the door. I’m imagining that people are pretty excited about it being open.