A Veritable Vegetable Paradise

My favorite part of the Topsfield Fair was probably the "Fruits & Vegetables" room--where they displayed the food items which had been judged to be the most robust and impressive specimens of their kind.

A real crowd-pleaser was New England's Biggest Pumpkin--which weighed in at over 1400 lbs. As you can see, when pumpkins get to be so large, they begin to lose their structural integrity & spherical shape.
Vegetables of all shapes and sizes could be found.
And colors, too.
Next up is the vegetable-decorating competition. The Olympic theme was popular for obvious reasons.
Pumpkins dressed up as Betty Boop & The Abominable Snowman.
Kind of creepy Michael Phelps pumpkin head.
Vulture made out of corn leaves and other vegetable parts.