The Great Scarecrow Adventure

And my head I’d be scratching

 while my thoughts were busy hatching

If I only had a brain…

I love my little hometown. It’s a quaint little piece of the south, and a pretty good place to visit or live. One of my favorite things about it is the creativity of the downtown area. This is largely due to the wonderful woman who runs the Downtown Development Authority.

I like her.
She’s a hard worker, and what’s more… she’s fun.
Not only does she dream up ideas to promote the downtown, she rallies others to join her. The Duchess is her friend and, generally speaking, her right hand in downtown endeavors.

This fall, they asked local businesses to celebrate autumn by creating scarecrows to go along with the theme of their businesses. Yesterday afternoon, we took a stroll downtown to see the scare people which have been put up so far.

Thought you might like to tag along.

The first one that you’ll see upon entering the downtown area is the Scare Mayor. Yep. That’s literally a picture of her face attached to the head of the scarecrow in front of City Hall.

And her little dog too…

Actually, she’s a wonderful lady who jumped into the project with great delight. She even donated her own clothes for the effort.

Next up is this giant sack head scarecrow at the Chamber of Commerce. This one makes me giggle because of the hand on the hip.  Looks like a scarecrow with attitude.

Rounding the corner, you see this ...

Why, it’s the Newlywed Niece!

This was made by the employees from her bank and is supposed to look like her.  I probably would have suggested a little sassy hip action here too. Of course, I don’t work there…

Now, this one looked creepy to me from a distance until I realized what this female lawyer in town was trying to do. Can you tell?

It’s Lady Justice, of course.

Smiling pumpkin head Lady Justice,

 but the old gal nonetheless.

This local wilderness supply store used a big old bucket for a head. This is particularly funny if you knew the actual store owner…a bucket head if I’ve ever met one.

This is another one of my favorites. It’s in front of a little antique shop owned by a retired English teacher whose uniform of choice is a denim jumper and sneakers. It looks exactly like her. She used her own clothes because she’s a jolly woman who doesn’t take herself too seriously.

The Duchess helped her make it.

 She’s even reading her favorite book.

The Downtown Lady and The Duchess made this one for a local timber buyer as well. He vetoed their plan to have him hugging a tree. He lounges in front of the building instead. Party pooper.

They also made this bench sitting Muppet just for giggles.

And a starving artist for the art gallery that I yakked about in THIS post.

A few more spotted on my tour…

This odd fellow was made by a local dance and drama studio, hence the drama mask. Ok…a bit creepy… but civic pride nonetheless.

Mr. Moats is a ninety-something year old grocer who still comes in to his little IGA every day. I think their display is cute as well.

No... this is not the Duchess. But this Scare Beauty from the local thrift store gives a mean queen wave as we head out of town.

I can’t wait to see the ones which go up next.

I hope you enjoyed this stroll through
Straw Town, USA.

And I hope you discovered that small towns have a lot

of character ...

Really...
We're so much more than just

 a bunch of  dummies.  

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