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Fantastic scenery today in Maine -- Twin Brooks Recreation Area and the Maine Pumpkin Festival - 30,000 pumpkins?

By Andrew Pollack on 10/04/2008 at 09:42 PM EDT

Today was really beautiful in Maine. Caitlin had a soccer game this morning at Twin Brooks, so I took the camera along. Thanks to Photoshop, I made this 360 degree panoramic view from where I was standing. Click the link to see it much, much larger (500k).


The rest of these pictures come from the Maine Pumpkinfest. This was held here at the Cumberland Fairgrounds today. Their goal was to break the world record for the number of lit pumpkins at something on the order of 30,000. I won't know until later tonight if they got to their goal -- I somehow doubt it as crows were less than expected. Still, it was a nice day and lots of people had a good time. The event was a fund raiser for "Camp Sunshine" which helps sick kids.

Enjoy the pictures. Click any to see them in full size.




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