Maria Perez and Jose Olvera pose for a selfie on the bridge in the Circle S Acres Corn Maze Saturday Sept. 28, 2024. The family-owned park outside of Wall is known as a popular spot for not only families but dating couples as well.
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A child is blurred as she rides an inflatable tube down the Mega Slide at Circle S Acres Saturday Sept. 28, 2024.
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Valerie Zetzman, 9, holds Kaityln Salazar, 10, as they make silly faces for a selfie. At their feet, Emma Garza and Mia Dowty, both 9, are ready to continue exploring the corn maze. Kaitlyn invited her friends to celebrate her tenth birthday at Circle S Acres near Wall, her mother Myrna following along as best as she could keep up Saturday Sept. 28, 2024.
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A sunflower catches the late afternoon sun in the garden at Circle S Acres Saturday Sept. 28, 2024.
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A visitor to Circle S Acres near Wall follows one of the paths through the corn maze Saturday Sept. 28, 2024. This year’s 4-acre maze is based upon the classic comic strip Peanuts.
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Sebastian Carrasco, visiting from Odessa, reacts as he fires one of the corn cannons at Circle S Acres Saturday Sept. 28, 2024. Powered by compressed air, the cannons fire corn cobs at tractor tires, winning the shooter a pumpkin if a cob goes through the middle.
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An ear of corn grows on its stalk inside the corn maze at Circle S Acres near Wall Sept. 28, 2024. The corn, which isn’t harvested except occasionally as ammunition for the corn cannons, is plowed back into the ground each year to nourish the soil for the following year’s maze.
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Shaun Ohotnicky loads a corn cannon at Circle S Acres near Wall Saturday Sept. 28, 2024. The corn cannons shoot their cobs using compressed air for the charge and corn husks for the wadding. Winners who can sink one through one of two tractor tires win a pumpkin.
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Lindsey and Chad Schaertl take their own selfie in front of a decoration at their Circle S Acres Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch outside of Wall Saturday Sept. 28, 2024. This is the couple’s ninth year for their corn maze and other attractions.
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Friends photograph each other in the evening light of the sunflower garden at Circle S Acres near Wall Saturday Sept. 28, 2024. In the background, the bridge rises over the corn maze.
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