Sunday was spent covering both the Mum Parade in Bristol and the Apple Harvest Festival in Southington.
Miss Mum 2008 Juli Bradley was excited to see her friends and teammates on the Bristol Eastern High School cheerleading team, who were marching in the parade with the school's band, along the parade route.

5-year-old Joell Gouthro was nice enough to share his cotton candy with his friends, Jacob Martin, 9, left, and Dominic Martin, 6, near the end of the parade route.

I found a group of kids playing a game of wallball on the side of a building near the end of the parade route. I haven't seen a game of wallball in years, so I had to stop for a few minutes to shoot. The ball came flying toward me, and then Wilfred Beland, 11, and Zachary Adkins, 7, scrambled to grab it.

Then it was off to Southington for the Apple Harvest Festival, which included face painting.
And head painting, in the case of John Vey, who serves on the festival's committee.
And 3-year-old Tyler McVicker played with the bubbles from a vendor's bubble gun.

All in all, it was a good day of making pictures. I made sure to buy a bag of apple cider donuts and a cup of fresh cider before I left.

I shot a local charity's annual banquet at a golf course restaurant a couple days ago. While everyone was eating dinner, I walked out to the course to try to make a decent feature to pass the time. I saw these guys getting ready to tee off, so I hung around and made this image of them walking down the fairway.

The guy on the left, Ron Sutton, is assistant coach of the New Britain High School golf team, and at right is Brian Coscina, who plays for NBHS. They were out on the course that day so Brian could improve his swing before the season this Spring.