James and Morgen's Wedding

Our son, James, and Morgen walk down the aisle, husband
and wife. The wedding was September 20th. These
photos were taken by Porter Watkins
(www.porterwatkins.com).

James Garren & Morgen Pavlovic Wedding

The happy beautiful couple

The Garren Family. Left to right, Will, Sean, Scott, Heather, Ariella, Shira, Maya, James, Morgen, Daniel,
Jonathan, Joshua, Michal and Zoe. We really missed having Zoe's husband George and sons, Nick and Tommy with us.

Morgen's sister and brother-in-law Claire and Bill on the left and Morgen's
parents, Kris and Karl on the right.

Ariella, Maya and Shira were the
flower girls

Jonathan and Daniel looking spiffy

The wedding party in front of the lovely home at Rocklands Farm. As you can see, it was the perfect day (in every way).

The Barn where we had the reception. Behind the barn at the
lowest level they set up the bar and appetizers. Then we
moved upstairs

Rockland Farm is an organic farm and
winery in Poolesville, Maryland.

Deborah, Marty, Leslie and Dave at the table, decorated
with beautiful flowers all done by Morgen's mother and Aunt.

David Wood and Julie Wolf 

Michal, Josh and Shira

Scott's brother Brent and wife Wilma

Dave and Leslie Silverstein

Larry Barns and Heather

Luke Barns 

Gail Smith demonstrates some great moves. Behind her is
Molly Wolf, Scott's cousin Lisa and her daughter Marlena
and son Gabriel.

Will and Sean enjoy a dance. Behind are Molly and Luke

This is my shot - Deb, Marty, Russ and Dick.

Family group, Josh, Brent's daughter Swanda, Ana Lua, Lisa, Brent, Gabriel, Wilma, Marlena, Sean and Michal
In the front Jonathan, Shira, Ariella, Daniel and Maya. (back to Porter's photos)

Morgen's Dad, Karl, made the cake

And I coordinated a team of family and friends to make
 10 pies. The color is off in this shot.

These next are now from my camera; Here, Jenny works on
 one of the 10 pies we made for the wedding.

James picked out the recipe and it was complicated but
delicious and very beautiful. Sean, Wandi, Jenny and Ariella
were my most active partners.

Ariella and Paula at the wedding

We rented the Am Kohel Sanctuary Center near the wedding
location for 6 days and our immediate family stayed there
with us (and Jenny). It slept 22 and we had the rehearsal
dinner there on Friday night and a Brunch on Sunday.

We had a tent set up for 40 on the lawn just off the deck

James, Zoe and Scott get in line for the
BBQ dinner.

The Tunbridge World's Fair

Bright colored ribbons await award ceremonies.The Tunbridge
Fair has been operating since 1867 and at this location since
1875. It is a real country fair (although billed as a World's
Fair) with horse racing, tractor pulling, animal and
vegetable judging, but it also has a miniature village with
volunteers playing the parts of the villagers from long ago,
sort of like Williamsburg or Sturbridge village.

Lots of young girls wait their turn to show off their horses
in the ring

Families are assigned stalls for their horses and some look like
second homes - see the photo on the right

This street had many family stalls, along with the horses
and families

This beautifully groomed horse has a league of admirers

A longer view over one of the judging areas

Volunteers, almost all in period costumes (this man was one
of the few who weren't) demonstrate what everyday life was
like in Tunbridge 100 years ago or more.  This is the printer's
office. I unfortunately didn't get any pictures of the many
demonstrations of cutting and sawing lumber for building
purposes, shown in many ways.

Farm machinery and transports line a long barn. Here is a
bicycle driven saw and behind it a one horse sleigh

I loved this Surrey with the Fringe on the Top (but no
isenglass windows you could roll right down).

This peddler's wagon had a colorful history as the peddler was
a farmer who lost both hands in a farm accident and worked
as a peddler the rest of his life.

This young boy works hard pedaling to run a rope making
machine,

Contra Dancing in Period Costume

We felt like youngsters in this group!

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One large barn comprised a miniature village with this "home"
cooking lunch for the period volunteers around the fair.

This mother and daughter were making pounded cheese and
butter on crackers as a snack for everyone.

A busy weaver at her loom

This couple ran the general store, most popular item -
penny candy!

Music was provided as well.

The hat shop - I really loved wearing hats.

Before you can weave, the wool must be spun and died.

There was a functioning school - an actual one moved to the
site.

The antique tractor pull, which ran all day
There were a LOT of tractors!

The produce competitions had lots of entries - here are just
some of the pumpkin ones.

The cows were beautiful

And the cow barns immaculate

Aren't these patterns lovely. The black and white is separated
by a beautiful dove gray.

I just loved this young boy eating his pizza with his cow

A close up

Such cuddly lovely sheep

There was an obstacle course for the pigs. For a treat
this sow brought her piglets - a huge crowd favorite.

And if you haven't had enough tractors there were tons of
new ones on show and other farm machinery. There were
lots of rides as well, although Scott and I skipped that section

Every year I look forward to my once a year
fried dough covered with maple cream - Yum! We were
pleasantly surprised at the wide choice of food with some
much better and healthier options than usual. This of
course wasn't one of them!

Scott and I on the tractor ride back to our car after our
wonderful day at the Fair