ORIGINAL 2:53 PM REPORT: Remember the invitation to decorate a cake for the Fauntleroy Fall Festival? Here are some of the entrants. The Cake Walk is at 3:30, if you haven’t made it to the festival yet – Fauntleroy Church, Y, and Schoolhouse, 9100 block of California SW, with a guard to get you back and forth safely:

In the church parking lot – activities including pumpkin-painting

Be sure to check out what’s behind the schoolhouse – including the ponies!

And meet some of the folks whose volunteer efforts keep the wheels turning – like board members from the Fauntleroy Community Association:

And West Seattle Hi-Yu Summer Festival leadership:

More photos to come, post-festival! The event schedule at fauntleroy.net – the festival is on right now, till 5:30 pm.

MORE PHOTOS ADDED SUNDAY NIGHT! Just ahead –

The Cake Walk was a hot ticket. People even lined up waiting for a place in the circle – and the cakes were going like, well, hotcakes:

If festivalgoers weren’t walking for cakes, they were perhaps jumping for joy:

That was the bouncy house for the littlest kids, behind the church. Back out in the church parking lot, a stilt-walker gave a new meaning to “high five”:

In the background, you probably noticed Engine 37 – which welcomed even the youngest future firefighters:

Much creativity on display, with art happening throughout the festival – take note of Judy Pickens’ salmon hat, as she anchored the Fauntleroy Watershed Council booth:

We have a longstanding WSB tradition of photographing any candidates/elected officials encountered at festivals. Only saw one today – School Board president Steve Sundquist (long involved with Fauntleroy Church, so it wasn’t just a campaign stop):

On our second visit to the festival, we checked back at the Hi-Yu table and found Junior Court Queen Thea and Princess Amanda:

But if there’s one icon of the Fauntleroy Fall Festival, we’d vote for the decorated pumpkins:

The festival is an all-volunteer, donation-supported presentation – so between now and next year, which will be the milestone 10th annual FFF, be on the lookout for ways to help, since there are usually a few benefits along the way. And this is just the start of a big fall in Fauntleroy – upcoming events include drumming at the Fauntleroy Creek overlook next Sunday, 5 pm, to call the salmon home, and a week of “Family Matters” presentations and discussions at the church – see the full lineup here.