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Always attracted to live outdoor music, I headed out to the Soule Homestead Education Center in Middleborough recently...
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... on this beautiful late summer day to celebrate the 26th year of the Harvest Fair and Folk Festival.
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The stage was set under these circus tents.
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There were wonderfully talented performers making beautiful live music.
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You can tell from their faces that they are just loving what they are doing - making music together as they have done for years.
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A random scarecrow.
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Even the backside of a sunflower is beautiful to my eye.
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And speaking of beautiful.
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Although I have mixed feelings about caged animals of any type, these injured and rescued birds were quite popular as educational tools for the young folks in the audience - and anything that fosters and instills appreciation of nature for the next generation has value to me.
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