Make it a Fall Family Tradition

My Caldwell, North Carolina, family have worked with the folks who own and operate McKee's Corn Maze in Rougemont for several years. There have been times when Gail, Shelby, Gailey, and Troy have all worked there during the month of October preceding Halloween. The McKee's arrange to have the corn maze haunted during the last couple of weeks and the frightening fun is really ramped up!

As we all get ready for Fall to burst with all its glorious colors, the Corn Maze is the perfect place to visit right now to get us in the mood! Go on out and see Vickie and David McKee and their terrific assistants. Then go back when the place is haunted; you'll make it a tradition in your family!

Judy and Bob Shubert

Granddaughter Shelby Blalock 

Entrance to the McKee Maze

Cedar Creek Farm on Kiger Road

 One Maze Entrance

 White Pumpkins

 One of Two Small Donkeys

 Goats

 Latta's Egg Ranch

 Rhode Island Red Chickens

 Tractor at Each End of Maze

 Decorated Round Hay Bale

 Shubert Cutting into Hickory Nuts

 Beautiful Annuals

 Neat Gourds

 Locally Grown Pumpkins

 Fall Flowers

 ? Another Exit or Entrance ?

 An Exit

 Pumpkins and Flowers

 Shelby working

 A New McKee's Sign

 Red Barn with Green Roof

 Fall Flowers and Scarecrow

 Those Pumpkins Again

 Hayride Driver

Taking a Hayride 

 Great Pumpkins

 David and Gail Explain the Maze

Those on Hayride Return

Only Few Cars Left in Parking Lot

Going Home for the Day

Sources:

Photos

Taken by Judith Richards Shubert, October 5, 2013, Digital format.

McKee's Cedar Creek Farm; http://www.mckeecornfieldmaze.com/; accessed October 5, 2013.

McKee's Cornfield Maze on Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/McKeeCornFieldMaze

Saturday Auction in Caldwell

A brisk cool wind was blowing this morning reminding me of the coming fall in this beautiful countryside that I now call home. There was a Saturday morning Auction in Caldwell just around the corner from us, close enough that Shubert could hear the auctioneer call from his place inside where he is recuperating from a fall last week.

A neighbor, Coy Berry, moved away from his home-place and obtained Phillip Walker Auctions of Rougemont to auction his personal property. Coy's mother, Ruby, once worked with Bob at GTE in Durham back in the '70s. As happens in most of our families, many of her precious keepsakes and memories were sold today; hopefully that piece of pottery or antique lamp or treasured quilt will make new memories for that person that secured it with the winning bid.

It was a gorgeous morning with friends and strangers gathering there for the auction. I took a few pictures and enjoyed the sounds of the auctioneer and the conversation around me.

 Walking from my Daughter's Driveway

Pasture Across from Coy's Full of Cars

AUCTION TODAY

Philip Walker Auctions ~ Hillsborough, N.C. Signs

My son-in-law's mom and her clock.

My walk back home along the pasture road 

behind Ruby's and her son, Coy's house. 

My home is just beyond the trees to the left.

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