This weekend was Maple Leaf, a time when fall is celebrated in Jasper County. Friday night was the big Carthage / Webb City football game, which is always fun. Then of course on Saturday was the parade and associated festivities…
The big game. The first half was pretty close but then WC ran away with it towards the end. As you can see, Webb City has quite a sizable crowd on hand, I would say it well surpasses many D-II college attendance figures.
Carthage almost re-took the lead here. The Tigers, in spite of typically being a noteworthy team, have the curse of sharing a district with Webb City. Were it not for this fact, I imagine they would routinely be a playoff contender.
Eily was enjoying herself, cheering on my former high school. Of course one of these days she will be wearing Tiger Blue. Maybe by that time Webb City's glory days will have faded...ha.
At the parade the girls had a good time playing in the street.
Steph and Eily enjoying the nice morning.
Emma lookin' cool in her shades.
The Maple Leaf Festival is centered around the Jasper County Courthouse. I always thought it was a cool building.
Sunday afternoon we packed Eily in this little papoose thing and introduced her to the creek. She was more interested in sleeping. I was surprised at how comfy she made herself in there!
Center Creek was nice and peaceful with the falling leaves and rippling water.
I propped the camera up on a tree branch and managed to get a pretty decent shot of us, aside from violating one of my biggest photography peaves...cutting someone off at the ankles!