Went to the Syrup Sop Fair at Loachapoka today, about 15 minutes out of Auburn, a small town with a railway line through it. Popluation 175, it gets 20,000 visitors each year on Syrup Sop day when everyone comes from far and wide to buy this year's batch of sugar cane syrup. The cane is pushed into a mill that is turned by a mule, to press the syrup out of it. Then it is heated in vats and bottled hot ready to buy. Mmmmmm.

You can also get cowboy hats and holsters, knives of all descriptions, and southern belle T-shirts - see photos. If only the belles lived up the promise of the shirts !